Women Composers between life, art and spirituality. Sacred music rediscovered. Autrice: Maria Teresa Pizzulli

Descrizione

Women Composers
between life, art and spirituality.
Sacred music rediscovered. di Maria Teresa Pizzulli

PREFACE by Antonella Visintin

Contributo di Virginia Mariani

Edizioni Magister, 22/03/2022
ISBN 9788885564503
© 2022 Edizioni Magister
208 pagine formato 15x21cm

TeologicaMente Section – Director: Daniele Giacoia

NB: The book does not include a music CD.

A journey to discover sacred music from the Christian, Jewish, and Mormon traditions. Unknown composers from diverse places, countries, and cities meet in this research, which currently represents the most comprehensive study of the evangelical sector, from the Protestant Reformation to the present day. The aim is to fill the void surrounding women composers who, in their artistic lives, have drawn inspiration from their religious faith.

Women such as the tireless daughter of a Lutheran pastor who founded the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the first African-American musician to gain recognition in the United States as a classical composer, and the angel of the London slums who, in addition to composing hymns during the First World War, also set up soup kitchens with “kids’ doughnuts.”

These are the words of the first woman to compose and publish a symphony in America: “I think I enjoy my church music more than anything I’ve ever done. I’ve written hymns, oratorios, and an entire Episcopal service with great joy; these compositions have become a part of me more than anything else I’ve ever composed.”

There are female artists who still write sacred music, and there are female artists who write spiritual music (which can also be secular) and do so occasionally, as if it were a necessary stage in life: a moment when those sounds reveal something of their soul.

SUMMARY

PREFACE by Antonella Visintin;

WOMEN COMPOSERS IN HISTORY, Religious Music in the Catholic Context: Music in Monasteries, Women Composers, Early Music: Between 1500 and 1600, Women Composers, Music in the Modern Era: From the Late 18th Century, Women Composers in Italy, Europe, and the USA, Eastern European Women Composers since 1800, Contemporary Music – 1900 and the Millennium, Women Composers, Music and Spirituality;

THE PROTAGONISTS OF PROTESTANT MUSIC, Musical Forms of the Religious Hymn, Women Composers of the Modern Period (1700–1800), Women Composers in Europe, Women Composers in the USA, Contemporary Lutheran, Reformed, and Anglican Women Composers, Women Composers Gospel, Free Churches, Women Composers, Adventists, Women Composers, Pentecostals, Women Composers, Contemporary Italian Evangelical Women Composers, Baptist Women Composers, Waldensian Women Composers, Evangelical Women Composers;

MORMON AND JEWISH COMPOSERS, Mormon Women Composers, Jewish and Messianic Jewish Composers, Jewish Women Composers, Messianic Jewish Composers;

STEAM COMPOSERS by Virginia Mariani.

Maria Teresa Pizzulli (Ginosa – TA, 1968), pianist, composer, and concert performer. She teaches Piano Practice and Reading at the “G. Verdi” State Conservatory of Music in Turin. She combines her musical activity with research, with several publications. With her violinist sister Carmela, she recorded the CD Women composers from 1700 to the present day, Edizione Sinfonica, Brugherio (MB).

She wrote the essay “Music and the Shoah” in the multidisciplinary book Sguardi sulla Shoah edited by Simone Fappanni for “Progetto Flumen Artis71”.

She cultivates various interests, including theology: she is a graduate student in Practical Theology at the Waldensian Faculty of Rome and is secretary of CeSAP (Center for Psychological Abuse). A member of the UCEBI Baptist churches, she collaborates on musical and social projects with organizations and associations.