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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. […]
2017-01-13 16:28:07
The Lute Part VIII portrait of Francis I of France (1494-1547) c.1530 by Jean Clouet (1475-1540), Louvre Museum, Paris (click to enlarge) The French Renaissance is sometimes called the “long sixteenth century” by historians to describe a period from the end of the 15th through the beginning of the 17th centuries. During this period, the arts and culture flourished anew as France imported humanism, artistic ideals, and their proponents from Italy and adapted them according to French tastes and aesthetics. In the first half of the 16th century the French King Francis I – François Premier – was a great patrons of the arts and the epitome of the renaissance monarch: a poet himself, it was under his reign (1515 – 1547) that this cultural transformation took place most dramatically. It was also during the reign of Francis I that the very first printed music books appeared in […]
2016-12-16 14:53:30
a page from the Capirola Lute Book (click to enlarge) The Lute Part VII In the early 16th century an amateur lutenist in Venice compiled an undated manuscript consisting of lute pieces in Italian tablature composed by his teacher. He names himself Vidal in the book’s preface, and states that in order to ensure that the music contained in its pages is preserved, he has decorated it with “noble pictures” so that it will be treasured for their sake should the book come into the possession of some who may not appreciate music. Indeed, 45 of the manuscript’s 147 pages feature elaborate pastoral illustrations in full color, and the book has been preserved: this is the famous Capirola Lute Book. It is one of the earliest and finest manuscripts of lute music to survive – perhaps the most beautiful – and it contains the only known selection of music […]
2016-11-20 23:14:16
Frontispiece of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton ~ Canti A (1501) by Ottaviano Petrucci The Lute Part VI He did not compose for lute nor was he known to perform on it, but Ottaviano Petrucci (1466 – 1539) was nonetheless a vital figure in the history of the instrument, and profoundly influenced the course of musical development in the 16th century, and indeed music history in general. Petrucci was an Italian printer and a pioneer in the publication of music printed from moveable type. In Venice at the very beginning of the Cinquecento, Petrucci produced the first known example of printed polyphonic music: a collection of secular songs titled Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, in 1501. He also was the first to print instrumental music: several books of lute tablature, produced in 1507 and 1508. Today he is known as the father of modern music printing. portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro […]
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