The sheet music for the Vita Nuova album is now available!
6 compositions
Intermediate level
Reading Dante's works inspired the desire to create new music for his texts, a kind of receptive casket capable of holding the poet's most precious jewels, bringing the strength, value and modernity of his thought to the present day.
A New Life as a common thread: the capacity for renewal and innovation, and the possibility of directing our thoughts, our emotions, our actions towards the creation of the world we desire.
The harp - with its ancestor the lyre - is extensively mentioned by Dante; an instrument with a very ancient history, it derives from the musical bow and has come down to us through Africa, India, Persia, Egypt and Greece. In the European Middle Ages, it is evoked essentially for its symbolism. Its strings, animated by the breath of the gods, from Hermes to Apollo, from Arion to Amphion, and plucked by the plectrum of men like Orpheus and David, represent the planets of the solar system. Tuning the lyre is like re-establishing the harmony of the cosmos - the music of the spheres. To tune poetry with the lyre is the skill of lyric poets; to tune the hearts of men to restore human music is perhaps the task of each of us, welcoming the arrows of Love shot from its sweet bow.
Thin Veil is the invisible cloud, made of beliefs, habits, doubts, that separates us from joy, childhood and freedom.
Bliss, the place of Beatrice, the place of happiness that appears like a sudden flash. A moment later, it disappears, until we wish to return to the path.
‘Conqueror, Cuor Suave, de te prima’, (Sweet Heart) where do you go, if you do not take space and time to welcome your existence into your life? Listen to the time, listen to the beating of your heart and live!
The Angelicanza hierarchies (Angels) are virtues of counsel, dancing in a circle, as in a labyrinthine and ecstatic dance, around the point of our aspirations.
‘Beyond the constant movement, the fluttering of desires, the alternation of emotions, there is a realm where Iam at Peace’ (I am at Peace), in stillness and silence, says the beloved to the poet.
To be ready for a New Life is to welcome change and transformation:
‘Do you not realise that we are worms born to form the angelic butterfly?’
- Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, X.