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From classical music to folk music to the worst commercial music Italy has to offer:
Post it right here and turn this thread into a celebration of Italian music.
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*The last thread seems to be lost after the update, so lets start again
From classical music to folk music to the worst commercial music Italy has to offer:
Post it right here and turn this thread into a celebration of Italian music.
An amazing song called Nuotando nell'aria by the piedmontian band Marlene Kuntz. It's one of the best italian songs of the last 20 years, IMHO. Very northern (italian) mood :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ft55vXU5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_wZLpaVPg
Italian Renaissance Music for Viola da Gamba Consort,La Gamba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWsigszVR0M
Early Venetian Lute Music
Christopher Wilson with Shirley Rumsey Early Venetian Lute Music :
Although the lute figures prominently in the pictorial art of the fifteenth century, it was not a popular instrument in the true sense of the word; it can hardly be seen as an instrument 'of the people'. In fact it was most cultivated by that section of society that commissioned the paintings in which it so often features: the aristocracy and the upper echelons of the merchant class on whose success in business the political power of a city-state like Venice really depended. Early in the century the instrument was principally the domain of the professional musician; lutenists usually worked in pairs, one showing off his consummate skill in improvising exuberant variations over a slower-moving 'tenor' played by his humbler partner. It seems likely that the junior partner sometimes played a reduction of the lower parts of a well-known vocal ensemble piece, be it an amorous chanson or even a sacred motet, on his lute, While this complex texture could be approximated by the skilful use of the customary plectrum, it was actually easier to do using the individual fingertips of the right hand rather than with the 'strumming' technique of the plectrum. It cannot have taken long to see the expressive potential of playing with the fingertips, which allowed a greater range of dynamic and tonal nuance. This new technique also opened up the possibility of playing truly polyphonic music devised for the lute, and by the time the first lute music was published in 1507, it had become the dominant style, although the old plectrum technique must have remained in professional use for some time after that when the occasion arose.
The music beautifully printed by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice from around 1500 was not intended for professional musicians. It supplied a demand for high-quality music for consumption by amateur musicians with the money to spare They were emulating their richer contemporaries, the aristocrats and merchants, who were, of course, the principal employers of professional players, and most music manuscripts of the period, sometimes extravagantly calligraphed and decorated, come from that exalted circle Since professional lutenists worked within an essentially improvisational, aural tradition (as they continued to do throughout the lute's history) they had little need of music that was written any differently from that used by singers or players of any other instrument. From the late fifteenth century, however, there began to appear manuscripts and, from 1507, a series of printed books, of idiomatic music specifically composed or arranged for the lute. All these manuscripts and prints used tablature, a form of notation that made it easy for an amateur lutenist to find the sometimes complicated fingering positions for the sophisticated music, itself probably based on the repertory of the professional players whose playing was so highly respected
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio Calata ala spagnola
1. Calata ala spagnola 00:02:06 Tastar de corde, Recercar dietro
2. Tastar de corde, Recercar dietro 00:02:13 Pavana alla venetiana
3. Pavana alla venetiana 00:03:26
Spinacino, Francesco Rececar
4. Rececar 00:01:37 Jay pris amours
5. Jay pris amours 00:03:33
Bossinensis, Franciscus Recercar
6. Recercar 00:00:28
Spinacino, Francesco La Bernardina de Josquin
7. La Bernardina de Josquin 00:02:59
Capirola, Vincenzo Recercar quinto
8. Recercar quinto 00:03:45 Canto bello
9. Canto bello 00:01:36 La villanella
10. La villanella 00:01:29 O mia cieca e dura sorte (after Marchetto Cara)
11. O mia cieca e dura sorte 00:03:47 Che farala che dirala (after Don Michele Vicentino)
12. Che farala che dirala 00:02:00 Non mi negar signora (After Serafino dall' Aquila)
13. Non mi negar signora 00:01:01 Recercar
14. Recercar 00:00:50 Pavana
15. Pavana 00:02:16 Calata
16. Calata 00:01:46
Bossinensis, Franciscus Recercar
17. Recercar 00:00:41
Spinacino, Francesco Je ne fay
18. Je ne fay 00:04:10 Recercar
19. Recercar 00:02:54 De tous biens
20. De tous biens 00:03:52
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio Tastar de corde, Recercar dietro
21. Tastar de corde, Recercar dietro 00:01:09 Calata ala spagnola
22. Calata ala spagnola 00:02:33 Poi che volse la mia stella (after Bartolomeo Tromboncino)
23. Poi che volse la mia stella (after Bartolomeo Tromboncino)00:02:43 Laudato dio
24. Laudato dio 00:02:43 Saltarello and Piva
25. Saltarello and Piva 00:04:54
Source :
https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?fi...
Information :
http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_...