Description du projet
La fonction du chant examinée en recourant à la laude italienne du début de la Renaissance
Apparue au milieu du XIIe siècle, la laude était un genre poétique fondé sur la musique qui a inspiré le chant italien. Elle était principalement utilisée par les profanes en dehors de la liturgie officielle pour véhiculer des messages religieux et non religieux à un public essentiellement sans instruction et illettré. À ce titre, elle représente une importante ressource historique. Le projet LAUDARE, financé par l’UE, entend compiler des manuscrits de laudes italiennes produits entre le XIIe et le XVIe siècles ayant survécu afin d’étudier les rouages internes de leur dynamique en termes de composition, de transfert, de musique et d’oralité. La base de données en libre accès qui en résultera facilitera les études sur les origines lyriques et/ou musicales et sur les modèles de diffusion géographique. Les conclusions du projet seront publiées sous différentes formes et présentées dans des ateliers et lors de conférences.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitution d’accueil
38122 Trento
Italie