Draft:Murmur Mori

Murmur Mori is a medieval music ensemble founded in 2015 by musicians Mirkò Virginio Volpe and Silvia Kuro. The ensemble investigates jester poetry and music from the 8th to the 13th century by working directly on medieval manuscript sources. In 2022 they work on the lyrics of the Italian 13th century, returning the music to poets such as Compiuta Donzella of Florence, Bonagiunta Orbicciani and other lyrics that have remained anonymous and certainly intended for singing, as evidenced by the manuscript sources that report them. The research work on the thirteenth-century repertoire continues with the publication “Dançando La Fressca Rosa”: mini-album resulting from Mirkò and Silvia's research on the Bologna Memoriali conducted with the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, MemoBo project.

In 2022, research begins on the musical reconstruction of "Aiuta De', vera lus et garçat", a translation into a 13th-century Piedmontese vernacular of the famous alba by the troubadour Giraut de Borneill.

In 2023 they released the album “Canzoneta, va!” concerning the connection between Provençal and Italian poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries. This new research leads them to participate at the Week of the Italian Language in the World, an event sponsored by the Presidency of the Italian Republic, as well as by the prestigious Accademia della Crusca. Murmur Mori won the 2023 Italia Medievale (Medieval Italy) award, ranking first in the "entertainment" category. The Murmur Mori ensemble also collaborates with the professor and musicologist of the University of Milan Davide Daolmi on the reconstruction of Middle Latin melodies dating back to the 9th-12th centuries.