Digital Casulana is a digital portal devoted to Maddalena Casulana, the first woman to publish music under her own name. It currently provides reconstructions of the incomplete madrigals from her first book, the Primo libro de’ madrigali a quattro voci (1568), of which the alto and basso partbooks are lost.
Project lead:
Catherine Deutsch (Université de Lorraine, CRULH; Institut universitaire de France)
NEWS:
| 16 January 2026 |
“Rediscovering Casulana.” Interview with Catherine Deutsch about her book Maddalena Casulana: Music Advocating for Women in Early Modern Italy on the blog of the Canada Research Chair in Music and Politics (CRCMP). |
| 13 January 2026 |
Presentation of the poster “Digital Casulana: Polyphonic Reconstruction and Digital Edition of Maddalena Casulana’s Primo libro de’ madrigali a quattro voci” at the 5th Rencontres de musicologie médiévale (RMM), Université de Lorraine, Metz. |
| December 2025 |
Publication of Maddalena Casulana: Music Advocating for Women in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge University Press). |
| 14–15 July 2025 |
Filming of the video recordings at Le Rexy, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps. Artistic direction: Nolwenn Le Gwern; film direction: Amélie Mignon; sound engineer: Clément Gariel; co-production: Université de Lorraine / Institut universitaire de France (IUF) / Doulce mémoire. |
| 26 April 2025 |
Premiere of the reconstructed Primo libro de’ madrigali a quattro voci at the Présence compositrices festival (Abbaye de La Celle). |
| 28 January–1 February 2025 |
Work residency in Amilly with Doulce mémoire (dir. Nolwenn Le Gwern). |
| 1 November 2024 |
Launch of the IUF project “An Archaeology of Feminisms in Music”. |
