TY - CHAP
T1 - Uncovering the Musical Life of San Donato in Polverosa
T2 - Sister Maria Diacinta Paulsanti's Processional
AU - Stoessel, Jason
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This study reveals an episode in the little-known musical life of the Florentine Cistercian convent of San Donato in Polverosa. It shows that one of the convent’s mid seventeenth-century nuns, Maria Diacinta Paulsanti, owned a sixteenth-century processional, now Additional MS 412 in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Australia. This handed-down chant book also witnesses the cultivation of mensural music and choral polyphony at San Donato. Supporting archival evidence for a range of musical practices at San Donato during Maria Diacinta’s time there is outlined. The chapter concludes by examining whether post-Tridentine reforms at Florence in 1661 had any effect on the subsequent use of the processional.
AB - This study reveals an episode in the little-known musical life of the Florentine Cistercian convent of San Donato in Polverosa. It shows that one of the convent’s mid seventeenth-century nuns, Maria Diacinta Paulsanti, owned a sixteenth-century processional, now Additional MS 412 in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Australia. This handed-down chant book also witnesses the cultivation of mensural music and choral polyphony at San Donato. Supporting archival evidence for a range of musical practices at San Donato during Maria Diacinta’s time there is outlined. The chapter concludes by examining whether post-Tridentine reforms at Florence in 1661 had any effect on the subsequent use of the processional.
U2 - 10.4324/9780429505164-4
DO - 10.4324/9780429505164-4
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780429505164
SN - 9781138585638
SN - 9781138585621
T3 - Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
SP - 45
EP - 62
BT - Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250-1750)
A2 - Fontijn, Claire
PB - Routledge
CY - New York, United States of America
ER -