Descripción del proyecto
La funcionalidad del canto explorada a través de los laudes italianos del Renacimiento temprano
Desde mediados del siglo XII, el laude fue un género de poesía de base musical que incitó el canto italiano. Fue utilizado principalmente por laicos fuera de la liturgia oficial para transmitir mensajes religiosos y no religiosos a un público mayoritariamente analfabeto y sin educación. De este modo, representa un rico recurso histórico. El equipo del proyecto LAUDARE, financiado con fondos europeos, se propone recopilar los manuscritos italianos de laudes de entre los siglos XII y XVI que han sobrevivido hasta hoy para estudiar el funcionamiento interno de su dinámica en cuanto a composición, transmisión, música y naturaleza oral. La base de datos de acceso abierto resultante permitirá la realización de investigaciones sobre los orígenes líricos o musicales y los patrones de difusión geográfica. Los hallazgos del proyecto se publicarán en varios formatos y se presentarán en talleres y conferencias.
Objetivo
The lauda, a vibrant expression of popular piety, is the poetic-musical genre that from the second half of the twelfth century marked the birth and the spread of singing in the Italian language. It was based on melodies of varied origins, but mostly functional in orally conveying – through minstrels, lay confraternities and preachers – the dissemination of texts and (not only spiritual) concepts among a largely illiterate population. Despite this ‘volatility’, a good corpus of laude has been preserved in written form for ritual needs, sometimes with musical notation, forming an impressive repository of ‘frozen orality’. While realizing the importance and vastness of this heritage, scholars for over a century have been mainly engaged in alternatively considering it either from a literary or a musical point of view. Therefore, no systematic research has yet to shed light on the specific nature of the phenomenon, its dynamics of creation and transmission and all indicators that make it a reliable mirror of society, culture and mentality in medieval and early Renaissance Italy. The LAUDARE project aims to approach the Italian lauda in its intrinsic intermediality by collecting the whole corpus of texts handed down with music up to the mid 1500s and comprehensively exploring the dynamics of composition and transmission of poems and related tunes according to the mechanisms of orality. An open access database, making searchable the entire corpus, will allow wide-ranging surveys such as the territorial impact of a text and/or its musical setting as well as the diffusion of melodic patterns and text formulas. The results will be collected in a specific volume. Other expected outputs are a handbook, at least ten open access articles, three workshops and two international conferences with proceedings, one of which will have involved related disciplines such as medieval and religious history, linguistics, palaeography, iconography, anthropology, and urban studies.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
38122 Trento
Italia