Singing nuns and soft power: british diplomats as music tourists in seicento venice

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• who: Alana Mailes from the redraw the soundscape of early modern Italy, expanding outward from the domains of the most celebrated canonical composers, such as Monteverdi's San Marco, to also bring alive dynamic musicking in convents and other formerly overlooked hubs of musical creativityFurthermore, this article introduces music-filled nunneries into the New Diplomatic History as a critical setting for and instrument of international diplomacy. Of course, British diplomats in Venice heard many other forms of music-making in the lagoon as well. They wrote home about everything from musical military spectacle at sea to the . . .
  

   

  

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