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On Tuesday, June 4, 2025, at the University of Turin, Lucia Marchi (Postdoctoral Fellow for the LAUDARE project) will give a lecture entitled “The Lauda and the Survival of the Trecento Repertoire”. The talk is part of Professor Alberto Rizzuto’s course on the History of Musical Civilizations, in the Department of Humanities.
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An article by Lucia Marchi and Giacomo Pirani has just been published in the journal Philomusica on-line, offering a conceptual framework for the LAUDARE database. After highlighting the diversity of lauda sources, the authors propose a strategy aimed at effectively and faithfully representing the intrinsic qualities of the repertoire.
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On the occasion of the Choral Music Festival of the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory of Music in Venice, which took place in Venice on May 14 and 15, 2025, a presentation by PhD Anita Sisino was dedicated to the Laudare project.
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As part of the Laudare project, a series of Ethnomusicology Seminars is being held at the University of Trento. These events were organized and coordinated by Cristina Gherardini and opened to participation by Project Team members, researchers and experts in the field and in the laudistic repertoire being explored. Here is the scheduled sessions:
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Within the framework of the Laudare project, the seminar led by Giacomo Pirani and Matteo Leonardi on February 18-19, 2025 at the University of Trento, explored the methods and strategies for archiving, transcribing, and studying medieval poetic-musical corpora, with particular attention to laude and the repertoire of polyphony.
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On Friday, September 20th, and Saturday, September 21st, the workshop for the Laudare project was held in L’Aquila, titled: Technical and Musicological Issues for the Study of Medieval Musical Manuscripts. The event took place at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, a project partner, and provided an opportunity to share progress on the database, define…