Created seven years ago as one of the numerous musical events that for some time have enliven the cultural projects of the summer holidays on the Adriatic Coast; Musicae Amoeni Loci has developed into an important cultural event where history and current events, music and art, crafts and enogastronomy abound wherever the musical events take place. Pesaro's location is particular with, in the background, one of the most beautiful mountainous areas of Central Italy where in each village and community there is an old story to tell. It was the perfect place to create a link with the events relating to the travelling festival and the environment. Under the aegis of the Tourism Agency of the Province of Pesaro and Urbino and its patronage, with the contribution of the municipalities of Pesa, Gradara, Mombaroccio, Monteciccardo, Sant'Angelo in Lizzola, the Jubilate di Candelara choir (organizer of the event since the beginning) has started by organizing concerts and workshops, performances and conferences with music and then by studying the more ancient history, taking it out of the dusty shelves of the archives and libraries where it rested for too long a time. The idea is not to put everything back behind heavy doors after some anniversary has taken place, but to give back a voice to pages of books that were kept silent for much too long and give life to the music that was heard in churches, convents, old palaces and country villas in the area between medieval times and the nineteenth century. Up until now there have been a lot of surprises, but if
local antique music of past reviews formed only part of a program that, with philosophical intentions and with much interpretative taste, was based mostly on the pages of the usual great ones; it has a run in this year 2010. Research was focused on music from Pesaro and the surroundings: a city often in the shadow of charming neighbour Urbino, it was a lovely place particularly in the winter when the Della Rovere court gathered here great European composers, together with the most famous Renaissance courts. The rediscovery of this marvellous world set between medieval times and the seventeenth century will celebrate in Mombaroccio (July 4th) Guidobaldo dal Monte, friend of Tasso and Sansovino and professor as well as correspondent of Galileo and (July 16th) the music of the Codice dedicated to the Duke of Urbino, in Candelaro (July 9th), sacred music to the court of Guidobaldo Della Rovere, in Mombaroccio Colombarone (July 18th and 25th) a wealth of medieval music in Pesaro, in Sant'Angelo in Lizzola and Monteciccardo (July 30th) Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro, choreographer of princes, in Gradara (August 8th) the music of Dufay for the Duke of Urbino and, most of all (August 6th), in the honorary courtyard of the ducal palace of Pesaro, the first reproposal in modern times of the Ilarocosmo, interludes by Ignazio Bracci and Pietro Pace written for the wedding of Federico Della Rovere and Claudia De Medici, the latter event a fringe activity of a scientific conference (August 5th) not only for scholars but most of all for the public.
