Divas in the convent
Subtitle: nuns, music, and defiance in seventeenth-century Italy
By: Craig A. Monson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226535197
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Women composers; Music in convents; Santa Cristina della Fondazza (Convent : Bologna, Italy); Church music; Catholic Church; History
Notes: Revised edition of Disembodied voices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Praeludium: putting nun musicians in their place; title: Donna Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana of Santa Cristina della Fondazza; title: Lucrezia Vizzana's musical apprenticeship; title: Musical and monastic disobedience in Vizzana's Componimenti musicali; title: Hearing Lucrezia Vizzana's voice; title: Troubles in an earthly paradise: "it began because of music"; title: Voices of discord at Santa Cristina; title: Losing battles with a bishop: "we cared for Babylon, and she is not healed"; title: A gentler means to a bitter end; title: "Pomp indecent for religious observance and modesty"; title: Another bishop, another battle, a different outcome; title: A last battle and an uneasy peace; title: Coda.