Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
THE LITERARY REVOLUTION AND THE RETURN OF THE MADRIGAL The extremity of style represented by Lasso’s sibyls, while ...
impure? And is artistic impurity an artistic vice? EX. 17-13B Orlando di Lasso, Prophetiae Sibyllarum, Sibylla ci ...
trend toward literary music, which first involved settings of Italian verse, was long viewed as a slow ...
— gravità (gravity or dignity) and piacevolezza (pleasingness or “charm”)—were to be realized technically by ...
illustrative of the sense of the line, which refers to a multiple, repetitive act—and underscores the “charmin ...
EX. 17-14B Jacques Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno, mm. 34–46 Musical descriptions like these, as observed ...
FIG. 17-6 Cipriano de Rore, anonymous portrait in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The direct imitatio ...
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They are accompanying a soprano voice moving in semibreves (whole notes) through perhaps the first complete ch ...
around 1560 a monster keyboard instrument called the arcigravicembalo, with fifty-three different pitches with ...
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There was also a negligible tendency on the part of some sixteenth-century musicians to experiment with ...
Wert portrays the poet’s distraction by the use of crazy intervallic leaps that utterly mock the smooth recup ...
The big turnaround on “sol io” (I alone) is signaled by a brusque chromaticism, signaling a new tonal and em ...
F that is also a dissonance: two sins at a single stroke. What Artusi left out of his discussion, howe ...
with the most far-out setting of a given text—should certainly not be discounted as a force driving radical ...
The ultimate madrigalian stage was reached by Carlo Gesualdo (1560–1613), the Prince of Venosa near Naples i ...
Gesualdo’s harmonic progressions, more fully saturated than any predecessor’s with true chromatic voice ...
can only be “misunderstanding.” But it is an inevitable misunderstanding, even a necessary one. There is ...
So what interests us now bespeaks our condition and no one else’s. No amount of historical learning can replace ...
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