Nuove risorse e prospettive per lo studio della musica medievale in Italia

Abstract

For the first time since its inception, the European Research Council Advanced Grant has awarded an Italian musicological research project, whose principal investigator belongs to the L-ART/07 disciplinary area. Its goal is to reconsider the relationship between poetry and music in a functional perspective, through a systematic examination of the lauda repertoire, from its origins to the early 16th century. This article illustrates the features and peculiarities of this research initiative, in the hope that the recent award may provide new lifeblood for the study of medieval music, which has been increasingly underrepresented and neglected in Italy, and encourage greater attention to European resources within the general field.