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2017-06-24 01:00:00
Loyset Compére (1440/45-1518) Missa Galeazescha Alexander Agricola (1445-1506) Gaspar van Weerbeke (1455-1517) Motets Heinrich Lübeck, Johannes Martini (c1440-1497/98) Instrumental music Odhecaton, Paolo Da Col – Pian&Forte, Gabriele Cassone – La Pifarescha – LaReverdie – Liuwe Tamminga organ Classic Voice/Antiqua CA001 (2009). Recorded 2005 [flac, cue, log, scans, covers of a later reissue] Rare and recommended! "In the second half of the fifteenth century, in times of the Duchy of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444-1476), Milan lived an extraordinary artistic flowering period, particularly in music. The Duke decided to create a large chapel for which he would hire some of the most famous Franco-Flemish polyphony composers active at the time, including Alexander Agricola, Gaspar van Weerbecke and Loyset Compère. The court of Galeazzo Maria Sforza promoted a new genre of polyphonic Mass, which in its texts attributed particular importance to the cult of Our Lady of Grace and Mercy. One […]
2017-01-13 16:28:07
[…] legacy, and the early years of the printed music trade. Although there is little record of Attaingnant’s origins and activities before 1514 – when he appears on the Paris scene already in possession of a printing press – Heartz builds a convincing case on circumstantial evidence for a childhood spent in Douai some 100 miles to the north, in the midst of the musically rich culture of the Low Countries that produced Dufay, Binchois, Tinctoris, Agricola, de la Rue, Josquin… It seems likely that Attaingnant was sent as an adolescent to study at the Collège de Dainville at the University of Paris – he was a choir boy, and received musical training as part of his studies. He eventually ended up in the print trade, which was located in the same quarter of the city. Pierre Attaingnant: Chansons nouvelles (title page), 1528 ~ Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague By […]
2016-12-16 14:53:30
[…] Here Vidal is clearly describing legato articulation as the sine qua non of fine lute playing. decoration from The Capirola Lute Book The tablatures in the Capirola Lute Book include selections in each of the standard genres of renaissance solo lute music: intabulations, ricercari (original contrapuntal fantasies), and dances. Nearly half of the pieces in the manuscript are intabulations of vocal models: frottole by Cara and Tromboncino, motets and mass movements by Agricola, Brumel, Obrecht, and of course Josquin. Capirola’s intabulations are carefully and musically executed. In the intabulations of four-part compositions, the lute transcriptions reproduce the full textures of the vocal originals much more faithfully than in earlier intabulations by Spinacino and Bossinensis – albeit in some cases with florid ornamentation. Vidal’s manuscript includes 13 pieces titled ricercar, which is the generic name given to a short piece of music comparable in character to the fantasy […]
2016-11-20 23:14:16
[…] book every few months. He was especially productive between 1501-1509. The first volume printed was the famous Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music) issued in 1501 – the first example of polyphonic music printed from moveable type. It was edited by Petrus Castellanus, a Dominican friar, and collects 96 secular songs in 3 or 4 parts – mostly French chansons by popular contemporary composers: Josquin, Heinrich Isaac, Johannes Ockeghem, Jacob Obrecht, Alexander Agricola, and others, as well as many anonymous pieces. Petrucci used an unprecedented new technique in which three impressions were made for each page: one for the staves, followed by one for words, and finally one for notes. His books were crafted with painstaking care and are among the most beautiful examples of printed music from the entire 16th century. The Harmonice Musices Odhecaton and the books that followed began a flood of printed music […]
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