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Many Italian Renaissance composers wrote music either inspired by the concerto delle donne or specifically for them. Between 1581 and 1586 especially, Alfonso's court saw its most "vibrant and culturally productive period, during which its literary and musical talents were focused most keenly on providing repertoire for the ladies ...
Renaissance Music. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-97169-4. Crocker, Richard L (1966). A History of Musical Style. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-486-25029-6. Gallo, Alberto (1995). Music in the Castle: Troubadours, Books and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Chicago: University of ...
Very little Italian music remains from the 13th century, so the immediate antecedents of the music of the Trecento must largely be inferred. The music of the troubadors, who brought their lyrical, secular song into northern Italy in the early 13th century after they fled their home regions—principally Provence—during the Albigensian Crusade, was a strong influence, and perhaps a decisive ...
The music of Florence is foundational in the history of Western European music.Music was an important part of the Italian Renaissance.It was in Florence that the Florentine Camerata convened in the mid-16th century and experimented with setting tales of Greek mythology to music and staging the result—in other words, the first operas, setting the wheels in motion not just for the further ...
The early lauda was probably influenced by the music of the troubadours, since it shows similarities in rhythm, melodic style, and especially notation. Many troubadours had fled their original homelands, such as Provence , during the Albigensian Crusade in the early 13th century, and settled in northern Italy where their music was influential ...
For example, 16th-century Italian dances in Fabritio Caroso's (1581) and Cesare Negri's (1602) dance manuals often have a galliard section. One special step used during a galliard is lavolta , a step which involves an intimate, close hold between a couple, with the woman being lifted into the air and the couple turning 270 degrees, within one ...
Animals in the Music of the Middle Ages - Nuovo Era 6970, reedited with new track order as Cantus 9601; 1992 - Speculum amoris. Lyrique d'Amour médiéval, du Mysticisme à l'érotisme - Arcana A336; 1993 - Guinevere, Yseut, Melusine. The heritage of Celtic womanhood in the Middle Ages - Giulia "Musica Antiqua" GS 201007; 1993 - O Tu Chara ...
1410-1415 — Compilation of the Squarcialupi Codex, the largest source of trecento music. c. 1400-c. 1600 Italian Renaissance Music. c. 1420-c. 1490 — Composition of polyphonic music enters a slow period. More great Italian performers than composers are known from this time. Rise of the influential d'Este and Medici political dynasties.