Response to Kimberlyn Montford
Kendrick, Robert
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2000)
Abstract
Emphasizes importance of special occasions, such as feast days of titular or founding saints and Holy Year activities when exceptional public celebrations led to musical performances and practices well beyond the quotidian. Performing forces were apparently focused mostly on voices and organ. The musical adornments of a saint’s feast day are analogous to the iconographic themes stipulated by nuns in the artistic decorations of their convent churches. It appears that in some houses official prohibitions against female monastic polyphony may not have had as inhibiting an effect on their traditions of training nuns in polyphony as previously thought.
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