From today until November 27, Molina exhibits historical instruments and organizes new courses and concerts with early music
Simultaneously with the sixth edition of the Momua Festival, an exhibition of historical musical instruments will be inaugurated this Thursday in the Mudem, which is also a nod to the celebration of the 750th anniversary of the Council and Villa de Molina de Segura. Part of the private collection of Mª Ángeles Zapata and Lorenzo Cutillas, artistic directors of Momua, which will allow visitors to contemplate the instruments used in the Middle Ages, many of which are replicas found in the Cantigas de Alfonso X el Sabio and others codices marked from the Middle Ages. According to Zapata, the act will be centered around the figure of the women who played these instruments at the time. The collection is accompanied by artistic photographs by the Murcian photographer Joaquín Zamora and is curated by the visual artist Carmen Mª Martínez Salazar, director of TradiciónArte.
Until November 27, Molina de Segura connects itself for another year with culture, history and music. It does this with the Molina Music Antigua Festival, Momua 2022 (www.momua.es), which brings concerts, training and exhibitions to the municipality in what is already its sixth edition, promoted by the Ministry of Culture of the Molina City Council , the female early music vocal group DeMusica Ensemble and the Institute of Cultural Industries of the Region of Murcia (ICA), and the sponsorship of Sercomosa.
The director of the festival and president of the association DeMusica Ensemble, María Ángeles Zapata Castillo, explained that Renaissance and medieval music will be the focus of Anónimo IV, an ensemble that will play music during the first weekend of the festival (Saturday 12 November ). , at 8.30 pm), starting with the figure of Alfonso X, to recount the connections between the musical traditions of the three cultures during the Middle Ages, with replicas of instruments from that time.
The group from Granada Vermell takes over on Saturday the 19th, with the desire to disseminate the aspects of the everyday life of the men and women of the Middle Ages with music as the common thread, to conclude already on Saturday the 26th with Anonima Frottolisti. This Italian ensemble rediscovers the repertoire of the 15th and 16th centuries, musical humanism, uses original scores to appreciate the theory of the time, and focuses its program on the Momua in a story of the Italian courts of this time around the figure of Isabella D’Este .
The Councilor for Culture, Soledad Nortes, pointed out that this year on Friday, November 18, there will also be medieval music at ‘Paseos por el cemetery’, by Vermell, as a soundtrack to Paco López Mengual’s stories. On 19 November there will also be a presentation by the Spanish Association of Teachers of Music History.
There will be three training sessions, over the three weekends of the meeting, all at the MUDEM. The first, ‘Spain in Italy: Oficio de Vísperas de Diego Ortiz (1565)’, aimed at singers and wind instrumentalists with no previous experience, will be given by the Italian interpreter and musicologist Marcello Mazzetti together with Livio Ticli. The course ‘Women Composers and Early Music: Historical Review and Interpretive Practice’ will take place on 19 and 20 November, an overview of the historiography of well-known female composers from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque. The course is taught by María Ángeles Zapata, Doctor of Musicology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. The 26th and 27th are dedicated to “Musical Humanism: Interpretation of Italian Music of the XV”, aimed at singers and instrumentalists and taught by Anónima Frottolisti.
Source: La Verdad
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