Sisters doing it for themselves

 

 

 

From The Guardian:

These motets were published decades before any other printed music that is proven to be for convents, but I felt certain they were written for nuns by a fellow nun: a nun princess called Suor Leonora d’Este. You may not recognise the name, but you may have heard of her infamous mother, Lucrezia Borgia?

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Hearing these motets, I really understood for the first time why the bishops were so queasy about nuns’ singing. Even those not used to Renaissance music can...