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Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700. By Colleen Reardon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. [x, 289 p. ISBN 0-19-513295-5. $65.] Music examples, bibliography, index.
The study of the musical activities of nuns in early modern Italy has gained momentum in the recent past. Within the last seven years Robert Kendrick (Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music in Early Modem Milan [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996]) and Craig A. Monson (Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modem Italian Convent [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995]) have published groundbreaking studies about music in Italian convents, and Kimberlyn Montford has completed an important dissertation about the convents of Rome (Music in the Convents of Counter-Reformation Rome [Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1999]). To this growing list we can now add Colleen Reardon's book about Siena, a smaller urban center than those previously mentioned, but no less an interesting subject of study. The book is organized in seven chapters that do not constitute a continuous narrative. Rather, after the first, more general chapters, the rest of the book is divided into explorations of...
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