Biblioteca Musica<\/em>!<\/p>\nTaking in the scene, the rows of catalogue trays in polished wood with brass handles, stacked high and running the length of the reception area, I asked about the process for consulting these treasures.\u00a0 There were request forms to be filled in, and an hour later one could consult the desired material in the adjacent reading room.\u00a0 It was five to twelve and they would soon be closing. Oh my word, a real sense of urgency,\u00a0 and I didn\u2019t even know what it was we were looking for.<\/p>\n
We returned to T<\/em>re amicis<\/em> to while away the hours\u00a0 and work out a plan.\u00a0 The B<\/em>iblioteca,<\/em> so elusive the day before was in reality very close \u2013 just around the corner from the Pantheon.\u00a0 We had a delicious slow meal, insalata verde, scampi <\/em>with tagliatelle, formaggio, dolce\u00a0\u00a0 vino de casa<\/em>. <\/em>\u00a0Later, after a coffee we strolled around the piazza,\u00a0 went to the Pantheon, had another coffee and finally it was time for the doors to open again.\u00a0 We had one and a half hours maximum,\u00a0 and had worked out that if we could get back to the hotel and take a taxi by 18.00, we would be ok.\u00a0 With no idea of traffic in Rome at that time, we gave ourselves a good margin.\u00a0 We stepped back into the Biblioteca<\/em> with our \u2018system\u2019 (the amethyst pendulum)and swung into action.<\/p>\nIt was fascinating to observe how it swung this way and that, and then suddenly stopped dead still to consider, and then moved again emphatically.\u00a0 In the first part of this exercise, we were in front of the catalogue trays of authors\/composers\/musicians.\u00a0\u00a0 And gradually, as we moved down the trays, the pendulum became more steady, focused. Was there someone I needed to be introduced to,\u00a0 with whom I had some connection and affinity?<\/p>\n
Moving through the trays alphabetically, it seemed that we were to concentrate our research on the section of trays A-D, and there were many of these.\u00a0 A finer focus brought us to several trays containing cards with names starting with \u201cC\u201d.\u00a0 We progressed through names CA.. and then got to names CE.\u00a0 The pendulum became very excited at this stage, spinning wildly and rotating almost horizontally.\u00a0 Amazing. And as Beth\u2019s fingers touched each card, one by one, suddenly there it was.<\/p>\n
Centi, Antonio<\/em>\u00a0 born…..\u00a0 died…. and a brief description of a composer and choirmaster.<\/p>\nOf course the text was written in Italian and I quickly copied it in my little notebook, not fully taking in the significance of what I was writing down.\u00a0 Until later.<\/p>\n
And then we moved across to the shelves and trays cataloguing the works.\u00a0 We worked fast; time was ticking away.\u00a0 I wrote furiously in my notebook each time we found another composition by Antonio Centi.\u00a0 Fortunately they were mostly grouped together but were classified according to some criteria and were located in clusters in several trays.\u00a0 Then, when I thought we had found everything attributed to him, the amethyst insisted No, there was more… more?\u00a0 Yes, in trays of Miscellanea \u2013\u00a0 under Anonymous<\/em>.\u00a0 There were many more works even here which, according to the pendulum, were his or with which he was directly involved.<\/p>\nI liked this fact.\u00a0 That the creative energy of Antonio Centi was embedded anonymously in so many more works than the \u2018Partitas\u2019 and \u2018Sonatas\u2019 bearing his name.\u00a0 These were choral works, which now I realised had been worked on with voices in resonant church and chapel spaces.\u00a0 How fitting that this was considered a collective effort; no single name implying origin or claiming ownership.\u00a0 He was part of a co-creation.\u00a0 I liked this man.\u00a0 This part of me.<\/p>\n
What does it feel like when one actually finds the name held in a previous life? Incredible, really.\u00a0 There was a sense of inner knowing.\u00a0 It fitted comfortably.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
I wonder when I realised that the dream I\u2019d had prior to this visit to Rome of the\u00a0 black-cloaked male figure from an earlier century who had merged with me so easily in the train compartment,\u00a0 was perhaps no other than Antonio Centi?<\/p>\n
I was certainly getting to know my Self (merci Ronald) .<\/p>\n
[1]<\/sup><\/a> I need to find my journal from this time, as I have a memory that the sign said \u2018Biblioteca Musica\u2019. There are a number of points I had written down, which now eight years later as I try to recall these times, are merging into impressions.\u00a0 In a later discussion with Katherin, the exhibition on esoterica which she had explored years before was titled \u2018Magica\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finding the Biblioteca and the collection of musical manuscripts of Italian composers 17th -19th Century. Introduction to Antonio Centi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":396,"template":"","categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","episode_posts","type-episode_posts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-part-2-music-and-my-soul"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylisteningheart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/episode_posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylisteningheart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/episode_posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylisteningheart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/episode_posts"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylisteningheart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylisteningheart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylisteningheart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylisteningheart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}