Brescia’s Soundscape

This Main Research Area includes some projects on Brescian soundscape between 16th and 19th century, focussing on unknown composers, publishing unreleased works, studying treatises and chronicles, gathering new information and archival findings on neglected cultural contexts and circles. 

Projects

• Floriano Canale (1546-1616): Brescian Organist and Prior at the Church of S. Giovanni Evangelista

• Performance Practice of Sacred Music and Music Pedagogy in Late Renaissance Brescia

• The Gambara Family (16-17th Centuries): a Brescian Soundscape between Domestic Music, Erudition and Patronage

• 19th Century Sacred Music in Brescia and the Music Collection of the Basilica della B.V. delle Grazie