Description
Nunneries participated in cultural and liturgical exchanges involving music at national and international levels, particularly through the existing networks of their religious orders, which connected Hispanic cities to other European centres and also to the New World. This paper addresses processes of musical-cultural exchange in convent spaces, arguing that nunneries were an important focus of dissemination of music and musical discourse crossing geographical boundaries. It appears that these networks not only served to disseminate musical artefacts and musical discourse, but also for the transmission of oral repertoires. The Carmelite Order offers a prime example, in this case stemming from Teresa of Avila’s tradition of composing poems to be sung at daily recreational gatherings, as this practice was transferred to Carmelite convents founded in France and the Low Countries in the seventeenth century.
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