PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Luisa Nardini is Associate Professor of Musicology at The University of Texas at Austin.
"""This book allows us to hear the voices of medieval musicians and poets of southern Italy as they interpret and celebrate the texts and music of the liturgy, a fascinating window on medieval aesthetics. The definitive study of its subject."" -- Thomas Forrest Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Music, Harvard University ""This magisterial work promises to transform our understanding of how the medieval liturgy was embellished, glossed, and interpreted. Nardini takes us into the creative worlds of singers in medieval southern Italy, yielding vivid insights into their practice of liturgical exegesis, interactions between institutions, and engagement in oral and written modes of composition. As a model for future scholarship on related genres, this book should be eagerly read by all who are interested in the history of the medieval liturgy and medieval Southern Italy. Moreover, the companion website is an invaluable resource for performers."" -- Rebecca Maloy, Professor of Music, University of Colorado Boulder"
