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The central theme of the collection is loss; the best-known work is the five-voice version of the Lamento d'Arianna, which, says Massimo Ossi, gives "an object lesson in the close relationship between monodic recitative and counterpoint". [99]
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
The earliest courtiers coincide with the development of definable courts beyond the rudimentary entourages or retinues of rulers. There were probably courtiers in the courts of the Akkadian Empire where there is evidence of court appointments such as that of cup-bearer which was one of the earliest court appointments and remained a position at courts for thousands of years. [3]
Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡi'jom də ma'ʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music.
ca. 890 – compilation of the Musica enchiriadis, the earliest known treatise on polyphony [7] ca. 900 – compilation of the Scolica enchiriadis, a commentary on the Musica enchiriadis [7] ca. 908–915 – Regino of Prüm writes De harmonica institutione, the first full tonary for the texts of the liturgy, at St. Martin of Trier [8]
The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era.
Castiglione was born in Casatico, near Mantua into a family of the minor nobility, connected through his mother Luigia to the ruling Gonzagas of Mantua. [4]In 1494, at the age of sixteen, Castiglione was sent to Milan, then under the rule of Duke Ludovico Sforza, to begin his humanistic studies at the school of the renowned teacher of Greek and editor of Homer Demetrios Chalkokondyles ...
Nicholas Lanier, painting by van Dyck, 1632, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (baptised 10 September 1588 – buried 24 February 1666) [1] was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great distinction.