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En Attendant - Mala Punica
En AttendantL'Art de la citation dans l'Italie des Visconti, 1380-1410Musico nell'autunno del medievoMala PunicaPedro Memelsdorff, Kees Boeke, Jill Feldman, et alArcana A2353:05 (flac and scans)Download......The program is enhanced by a fascinating note by Pedro Memelsdorff (the group's flutist) that explains the nature of the collection and its subtitle, "The Art of Citation in Visconti Italy." Fascination, of course, is the whole point of the Ars Subtilior. The art of citation involves the custom of beginning a text with "en attendant" ("waiting") followed by a motto, in Phillipot's case the heraldic motto of Bernabò Visconti, whose murder is lamented here. This and other works are quoted in Sus une Fontayne, following Phillipot's quotation of text and music from a Machaut piece. The selections recorded here can furnish an interested listener with endless opportunities to explore the relations brought out in the notes. On the other hand, the music is enjoyable at […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-05-15 18:19:50
“This isn’t Renaissance, it’s Medieval!” a perplexed audience member was heard to exclaim during a concert of music by Johannes Ciconia given by Exsultemus at the University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, on Saturday, May 12th. (The program was repeated the following afternoon at the First Lutheran Church of Boston.) Known for their performances of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, the Exsultemus singers and accompanying instrumentalists reached back this time to the period around 1400, when Franco-Flemish traditions of learned polyphony encountered Italian traditions of melodious song. Recent archival research, summarized in the New Grove Dictionary, 2nd edition (2000), has helped fill in the scant details of Ciconia’s biography. Born around 1370 as the illegitimate son of a priest in the bishopric of Liège, now in eastern Belgium, he entered the musical establishment of the papal legate, Philippe d’Alençon, following him to Rome in the early 1390s. Toward the end of the decade […]
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