Fiche Printed Sacred Music

Printed Sacred Music in Europe, 1500-1800: Switzerland and the Alpine Region as Crossroads of
Production, Circulation and Reception of Catholic Musical Repertoire (2010-2013)
Luca Zoppelli (responsable du projet)
Claudio Bacciagaluppi, Luigi Collarile, Laurent Pugin (collaborateurs scientifiques) ; Rodolfo Zitellini
(collaborateur technique)
Partners : RISM Switzerland ; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Abstract
The present project seeks to highlight the production, circulation and reception of the Catholic musical
repertoire in Switzerland and the Alpine region from the beginning of the print age until the end of the ancien
régime (1500-1800). In doing so, methodological tools will be developed that may in future be extended to
other areas of Europe. Printing entreprises in Switzerland showed a varied picture that had discontinuous but
international impact. Music printing was often directly sponsored by the church authority. Switzerland and the
Alpine region represented a privileged point of interchange between the repertoire of (Northern) Italy and the
German-speaking world. Specific networks of exchange arose in connection with the study voyages of the
clerics, and most importantly between different houses of the same order. The usage of the music depended
on its adaptability to functional-liturgical contexts that often showed a markedly local character. Due to the
proximity of different confessions in the Confederation, there was also a Protestant reception of Catholic
sacred music. The present project is a contribution to recent revisions of music historiography, which had up
to now uncritically reflected national and confessional differences. Particular stress is laid on methodology and
on data exchange capabilities. The different research threads all start from the study of musical sources.
Research will be extended to lost prints documented in historical inventories of music collections. Archival
documents will also be examined concerning the printing presses and the modes of transmission and
reception of the sacred repertoire. For data collection, two online databases are developed in collaboration
with the Swiss office of the “Répertoire International des Sources Musicales” (RISM, www.rism-ch.org). The
first will provide a database of “Printed Sacred Music in Europe, 1500-1800”. This will comprise the data
collected in the still ongoing project “Bibliografia della musica sacra pubblicata in Italia fra il 1500 e il 1725
circa” (Venice, Fondazione Cini). The second, already launched database, the “Historical music inventories
1500-1800”, collects data from music inventories from church institutions of the Alpine region. Swiss music
prints in Swiss libraries will be digitised. The music of some of the sources will be transcribed, applying and
enhancing the performance of Aruspix, a new software application developed by the University of Geneva
and McGill University (Montreal) that facilitates philological work on early typographical music prints.
Databases
Historical music inventories 1500-1800
http://inventories.rism-ch.org
Printed Sacred Music Database (available from summer 2013)
www.printed-sacred-music.org
Publications
Claudio Bacciagaluppi – Luigi Collarile, « Dal manoscritto alla stampa. In margine ad alcune partiture
autografe di Carlo Donato Cossoni (1623-1700) », in Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi, Maurizio Padoan (eds.),
Barocco Padano 7. : atti del 15. Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli 17.-18., A.M.I.S., Como, 2012, pp.
543-564.
Claudio Bacciagaluppi – Luigi Collarile, « Two Motets and a Canzonetta (1660s) », Web Library of SeventeenthCentury Music, 2012;
www.sscm-wlscm.org/index.php/main-catalogue?pid=24&sid=55:Two-Motets-and-a-Canzonetta-1660s
Claudio Bacciagaluppi, « More on Vivaldi in Switzerland », Early Music, 39/4, 2011, pp. 597-604.
Luigi Collarile, « Estienne Roger, Marino Silvani, Giuseppe Sala. Prime ricognizioni intorno a un’operazione
editoriale complessa », in Tiziana Affortunato (ed.), La musicologia come pretesto. Scritti in memoria di Emilia Zanetti,
Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica, Roma, 2011, pp. 99-113.
Claudio Bacciagaluppi, « Il repertorio sacro milanese in Svizzera attraverso gli inventari storici », in Cesare
Fertonani, Raffaele Mellace, Claudio Toscani (eds.), La musica sacra nella Milano del Settecento, forthcoming.
Luigi Collarile, « Fioroni nel fondo dell’abbazia di Einsiedeln. Appunti di storia della trasmissione », in Cesare
Fertonani, Raffaele Mellace, Claudio Toscani (eds.), La musica sacra nella Milano del Settecento, forthcoming.
Atti dell’Accademia Filarmonica di Bellizona 1785-1818, ed. by Luigi Collarile, in RISM Digital Library – vol. 2
(2013), forthcoming.
Letters on music from the monastery of St. Urban – Lucerne, ed. by Claudio Bacciagaluppi and Luigi Collarile, in
RISM Digital Library (2013) – vol. 3 (2013), forthcoming.
Valentin Müller (Molitor), Missa una cum tribus mottetis (1681), ed. by Luigi Collarile, Lang, Bern, 2013,
forthcoming (Editionen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft, 1 – Musik aus Schweizer
Klöstern, 6).
Valentin Müller (Molitor), Epinicion Marianum pro solemnioribus festivitatibus magnae Matris Virginis Mariae (1683), 2
vols., ed. by Luigi Collarile, Lang, Bern, in preparation (Editionen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden
Gesellschaft, 3 – Musik aus Schweizer Klöstern, 8).