CONF: Codici per cantare: I "Libroni" del
Duomo
nella Milano sforzesca
Conference date: 14 October 2016
Conference venue: Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
The central object of investigation of this study day is the set
of manuscripts
held at the Archive of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di
Milano and usually
known as the “Libroni” (big books). These manuscripts, copied
from c.1490 under
the direction of chapelmaster Franchino Gaffurio, contain a rich
repertory of
sacred music by such composers as Josquin des Prez, Loyset
Compère, Gaspar van
Weerbeke and Gaffurio himself. Thanks to the patronage of the
Sforza dukes, from
the 1470s Milan became one of Europe’s musical capitals. The
four Libroni (the
last of which was heavily damaged by a fire in 1906) are the
only extant
witnesses of the city’s contemporary musical repertory. Aim of
the study day is
to address the main open questions regarding the origin and use
of the Libroni,
to contextualize them both from the perspective of musicological
studies and
from that of other disciplines (liturgical studies, codicology,
cultural
history), and to further explore the repertory they contain.
The study day will include two special events:
- An exhibition of the Libroni at the Archive of the Veneranda Fabbrica, during which the ensemble Cantus Figuratus will perform motets by reading directly from the manuscripts.
- An evening concert at the Basilica of San Calimero, entirely dedicated to musical repertoire of the “Libroni”.
Organization: The Motet Cycles Project (lead by Agnese
Pavanello, Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel, Switzerland), in coperation with
Università degli
Studi di Milano; Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano;
Associazione NOEMA.
Speakers: Daniele V. Filippi, Martina Pantarotto, Klaus
Pietschmann, Edoardo
Rossetti, Francesco Rocco Rossi, Thomas Schmidt, Daniele
Torelli, don Norberto
Valli, Marie Verstraete, Massimo Zaggia.
See http://www.motetcycles.com/stu