Renaissance Music (Music)
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Complete transcription and reconstruction of the canon a13 for Christ and his Twelve Disciples on the Apostles Creed. This piece is found in both the Eton Choirbook and the Baldwin Manuscript. This edition contained both the fully... more
A critical and performance edition of Alexander Agricola's chanson "De tous biens plaine" for three voices. The cantus firmus of the tenor is extracted from Hayne Van Ghizeghem's (c. 1445 – 1476 to 1497) eponymous chanson. The text of... more
A non-barred critical transcription of Alexander Agricola's motet-chanson "Belles sur toutes - Tota pulchra es" from Florence, Bibliotea del Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, MS 2439 ff. 63v-64r. For a recording of the music with a... more
Performance score of Francesco Landini's madrigal, " Musica Son - Già Furon - Ciascun Vuol" transcribed from the Squarcialupi Codex (121v-122r). For a video of the score with a performance see the link below.... more
This is a threefold transcription of Baude Cordier's "circle canon," two versions in rondeau form and one in perpetual canon. Included with the music transcriptions are full translations from Medieval French to English of all the... more
A pedagogical transcription of Richard Sampson's (attr.) motet in double canon, "Salve radix," written to celebrate the union of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon and the birth of their daughter, Mary. For a video with recording... more
This paper examines the musical chapters in the Hebdomades (1589), an encyclopedic commentary by the humanist Fabio Paolini on a single line of Vergil (Aeneid VI.646: ‘Obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum’). This book, originally... more
This is a performance edition of Gherardello da Firenze's (c. 1350) caccia, "Tosto che l'alba." This edition is a combination of the three available sources for this piece, selecting those options which are optimal when differences arise... more
For an audio-video animation of the manuscript with the modern transcription see the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO56v7qltNo An edition of the anonymous labyrinthine ballade on three canons, "En la maison Dedalus" (In the... more
A transcription of a lesser known masterpiece from the early 16th century. The only known work by composer Johannes Mittner, this Mass, and particularly its Sanctus movement, demonstrates one of the largest mensuration canons from the... more
A scroll edition of Pierre de la Rue's "Agnus dei II" from his "Missa l'Homme arme" featuring his famous 4-voiced prolation canon.
For a recording and score-video of the piece see the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
For a recording and score-video of the piece see the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
A non-barred critical transcription of Alexander Agricola's contrafacta motet, "Virgo sub ethereis" (Source: Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, MS 40021 ff. 131v-132r) as derived from his "Comme femme desconfortée". For a video of the... more
A transcription of Pierre de la Rue's "Agnus Dei" from his "Missa l'Homme arme," which includes his famous 4 voice prolation canon.
For a recording and score video, see the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
For a recording and score video, see the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
Edition of Lorenzo da Firenze's caccia, "A poste messe" with english lyrical text underlay. For a video-score of this edition with a recording see the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN1dFq0jK-U Transcribed from the... more
A transcription of Alexander Agricola's (1457/58 - 1506) "Tandernaken." For a recording with a score video see the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nac6QU2rhGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nac6QU2rhGQ
A transcription of Jacob Obrecht's duet on the Marian Antiphon for the Hour of Compline, "Regina Caeli." This is one of Obrecht's unicum. For a recording and score video see the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igtd4bnBlwQ
Introduction to the edition of Andrea Antico "Frottole intabulate da sonar organi", ed. Ut Orpheus, Bologna. Italian and English version
pp. 171–218. – Il nome di Sandro Dalla Libera (1912-1974) è legato a doppio filo a alcuni tra i più importanti progetti editoriali dedicati alla musica d’organo realizzati in Italia dopo la fine del secondo conflitto mondiale. Il... more
Facsimile with Introduction by Luigi Collarile.
Review:
- Arte organica e organistica 15 (2009), p. 60-61 (Francesco Tasini).
Review:
- Arte organica e organistica 15 (2009), p. 60-61 (Francesco Tasini).
Delivered in 2012, published in 2015 [recte 2016]. In questo studio viene indagato il contesto nel quale sono stati pubblicati gli Offertoria e le Communiones totius anni di Mikołaj Zieleński. Attraverso un’analisi della produzione... more
Weerbeke’s motets show a broad range of compositional technique and style register. On the one hand, this variety can be related to the different kind of intoned texts and their various contexts and functions; on the other,... more
Transcription of Matteo da Perusio's canonic Gloria from Codex Modena A. For a score-video with recording see the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycYi7NDG92k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycYi7NDG92k
A performance and critical edition of Agricola's two voiced polyphonic setting of "Gaudeamus omnes", Introit for the Feast of the Assumption. For two different recordings and video-scores of the piece see the links below:... more
Lutenist singer Heteroclito Giancarli, active from the 1560s and into the new century has slipped by unnoticed in modern musicology. A student of Hippolito Tromboncino he was one of the many Italian singers of the sixteenth century who... more
Within not much more than five years of the second decade of the 16th century there was an increase in the market for German song books. Six prints are still extant or traceable; half of them were produced by Augsburg based printers, who... more
A study and critical edition of Agricola's two voiced polyphonic setting of "Gaudeamus omnes", Introit for the Feast of the Assumption. This is intended for teaching various 14th and 15th century mensuration signs and their modern... more
Fonti Musicali Italiane 12 (2007), pp. 7-37
Despite the frequently critiqued prolixity in much of his oeuvre, Alexander Agricola (1445/46-1506) crafted music comprehensible enough to elicit great praise from numerous contemporaries. What is then inherently praiseworthy in this... more
A score analysis of Alexander Agricola's first "Salve Regina" motet by Jordan Key. If you are interested in this analysis, my paper "Rhetoric, Prolixity, and Agricola: Alexander Agricola's Salve Regina I as a Defense of Polystylism During... more
The four Milanese Libroni, prepared during Franchinus Gaffurius’s tenure as chapel master at the Duomo, rank among the most important manuscripts of sacred polyphony at the turn of the fifteenth century. Their interest, notably as the... more
A transcription of Alexander Agricola's office hymn to the Virgin Mary, "Ave maris stella." Note the canonic inner tenor voices. This is one of Agricola's unicum. For a recording and score video see the link below:... more
In response to a general disconnect between the transmission of popular guitar music and its origins in the strummed styles of Early Modern Spain, this paper seeks to contextualize Arab musical importation into the Iberian Peninsula... more
Il volume raccoglie le osservazioni sul lessico tecnico della musica e del teatro del Cinquecento, attestato dalle traduzioni manoscritte di alcuni trattati greci: «Onomasticon» di Polluce, i «Problemi musicali» («Probl. XIX»), attribuiti... more
An open-score transcription of Alexander Agricola's "Agnus Dei" from his Missa Myne Zin. For a recording and video of the score, see the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsOzoKzIpIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsOzoKzIpIQ
This motet is the second "Salve Regina" motet composed by Alexander Agricola. For a recording and score-video of Salve Regina II see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoQLA3BXvQs For a transcription of his first Salve Regina see... more
In the history of music, that momentous religious, political and cultural event known as the 'Council of Trent' (1545-1563), triggered a critical rethinking of musical language. This essay accompanies the engraving of music, performed for... more
Music of all kinds in any play demands collaboration. It requires that a composer, or at least a tune, be supplied from elsewhere to complete the moment; further collaborations then sometimes become necessary, with a dance master, a... more
A survey on the famous 'Trattato sopra una differenza musicale' by Ghiselin Danckerts, 16th century papal singer and judge of the famous debate (1551) between Nicola Vicentino and Vincenzo Lusitano about the modern music and the ancient... more
A transcription of Alexander Agricola's first "Salve Regina" motet by Jordan Key. To view the score with recording visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3B-j3fUbqc
Aim of this study is to reconsider the nature of the relationship between the two editions of Claudio Merulo’s Ricercari d’intavolatura d’organo, libro primo (Venice, 1567; ibid., 1605). On the basis of a careful bibliographic analysis it... more
Contiene 7 artículos de investigación, reseñas bibliográficas y discográficas, tesis doctorales y noticias, 349 p. Javier Marín López, editor-in-chief.