Singing Lyric in the Kingdom of Naples: Written Records of an Oral Practice
Elizabeth Grace Elmi
Mainz: Schott Campus, 2023
455 pages
ISBN: 978-3-95983-643-2 (PB) / 978-3-95983-644-9 (HC)
This book examines the predominantly oral practice of singing lyric poetry among members of the Neapolitan aristocracy in southern Italy during the late-fifteenth century. The tradition of singing Neapolitan lyric developed and gradually gained ascendancy in the Kingdom of Naples over the nearly sixty years of the Aragonese dynasty (1442–1501)—both in the capital city of Naples and at feudal courts throughout the Kingdom’s rural provinces. The surviving song repertory and its preservation in late-fifteenth-century musical and literary sources bear witness not only to these varied performance contexts, but also to the inherently communal aspect of the tradition as a whole.
The History of the IMS (1927–2017)
edited by Dorothea Baumann and Dinko Fabris
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2017 • Online Members Edition revised 2022
167 pages
ISBN: 978-3-76182-439-9
The IMS is the oldest international association of musicologists and has been active for over ninety years since its foundation in Basel in 1927. The simplistic definition of historical musicology as the study of the written tradition of Western art music has shaped, for many observers, a distorted image of the IMS as a “European” society. This was not the vision of the founders. And it is not the present situation of the IMS. The exciting story told in this book, compiled by twenty-one collaborators, reconstructs the roles of the original protagonists of the IMS and follows the society’s activities up until the present day.
Members can access the book as a free-to-read online publication.
