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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 ...
In the Renaissance, music became a vehicle for personal expression. Composers found ways to make vocal music more expressive of the texts they were setting. Secular music absorbed techniques from sacred music, and vice versa. Popular secular forms such as the chanson and madrigal spread throughout Europe. Courts employed virtuoso performers ...
Sicut Cervus remains one of Palestrina's most popular and frequently performed works and one of the rare motets that retained its popularity into the modern era. [6] The motet is sung every Wednesday by students and faculty at St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) as well as in impromptu "Sicut singings". It is considered by students and ...
Renaissance Chansons is mainly for those European songs which were extensively developed by many composers or were used (e.g. as cantus firmus) for mass settings, in the period 1400-1600. Pages in category "Renaissance chansons"
The air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650. From approximately 1610 to 1635, during the reign of Louis XIII, this was the predominant form of secular vocal composition in France, especially in the royal court.
The film takes us on a journey through the "Renaissance Tour," named after her latest album, from its opening show on March 10 in Stockholm to its final stop in Kansas City on Oct. 1.
Song of Armouris (Byzantine, acritic song) Borzu Nama, ascribed to 'Amid Abu'l 'Ala' 'Ata b. Yaqub Kateb Razi (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh") Faramarz Nama (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh") Mushika-vamsha (Sanskrit) by Atula; The Song of Roland
Easily one of the more eclectic songs on Renaissance, “All Up In Your Mind” contains arguably the most subtly adventurous vocal performance of Beyoncé’s career. Her voice flutters across ...