Gaffurio, Franchino
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Introduzione, traduzione e commento di Paolo Vittorelli. Franchino Gaffurio (Lodi, 1451 - Milano, 1522), dopo la «Theorica musice» (presente in questa stessa collana), pubblicò, nel 1496, la «Practica musice», con l’intento di esporre... more
Elevation motets have been considered as a peculiar feature of the Milanese motetti missales. Yet an exploration on the elevation prayers and their circulation makes it possible to contextualize the Milanese transmission of elevation... more
In order to provide a new theoretical basis for reassessing the late fifteenth-century motetti missales and their interaction with liturgy in Sforza Milan, this paper starts not with the missales specifically, but rather with the broader... more
The repertoire of Milanese Motetti missales has often aroused interest among scholars from an historical point of view, while there are surprisingly few analytical investigations concerning this corpus. The case of Franchino Gaffurio... 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
15th- and 16th-century mensural notation raises many debates and questions among musicologists and modern performers. The contradictory teachings found in the vast body of theory from the Renaissance can be addressed through a better... more
The four Libroni of Milan’s Duomo, prepared during Franchinus Gaffurius’s tenure as chapel master, rank among the most important sources for sacred polyphony at the turn of the fifteenth century. Scholars have mainly investigated them as... more
Storia della musica nella chiesa scomparsa di S. Marcellino di Milano, edificio sacro che sorgeva sull'attuale via Broletto a poche centinaia di metri da S. Tommaso in Terramara. Franchino Gaffurio fu rettore di questa chiesa per oltre... more
Il contributo analizza le motivazioni che spinsero il musico lodigiano Franchino Gaf-furio a procrastinare la pubblicazione del testo De harmonia musicorum instrumen-torum opus, edito nel 1518 a Milano, a causa degli eventi che portarono... more
The heterogeneous repertoire and obvious Milanese origin of Gaffurius’ choir books have fascinated musicologists ever since the late nineteenth century. Some questions concerning the compilation and use of the music remain nonetheless... more
Le composizioni che più hanno attratto l’interesse degli studiosi, nel variegato corpus trasmesso dai Libroni gaffuriani, sono senza dubbio i cicli di motetti missales. Nati, si presume, nell’ambito della cappella di corte sforzesca, per... more
During his tenure as chapel master of Milan’s Duomo (1484–1522), the theorist and composer Franchinus Gaffurius promoted and supervised the preparation of four sizeable manuscripts of polyphony. The so-called “Libroni” (big books) marked... more
Some individual motet cycles, especially among the motetti missales, have hitherto received much scholarly attention. Yet due to their limited transmission, numerous questions related to the general use and function of motet cycles remain... more
"Zusammengefasst: Wo Renate Groth 1989 von einer lückenlosen Tradition in Italien ausgeht und einen »italienischen Rameau« ausschließt, sind drei Hauptbestandteile der paduanischen Harmonielehre schon längst separat rezipiert worden: 1)... more
During the fifteenth-century, the banquet (convivium or symposium) served as a private venue for Renaissance self-fashioning, where diners with humanistic appetites could publically demonstrate their well-honed civility and classical... more