Luca Marenzio
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This study presents the oeuvre of Adriano Banchieri, a Bolognese monk whose lifetime spanned the late Renaissance and early Baroque. Although the catalogue of his works lists no more than some fifty extant items, these are of an... more
Con questo elaborato si intende presentare una visione sul madrigale (con un sommario excursus evolutivo) in una prospettiva dedicata in particolare a quelle modalità rappresentative specifiche chiamate madrigalismi. I madrigalismi... more
Marenzio's contribution to a new style of proto-tonal music in late 16th century Rome
Il presente lavoro costituisce un nuovo importante contributo allo studio del madrigale ‘romano’, corposo repertorio polifonico profano tuttora in gran parte non indagato, frutto non solo della produzione di musicisti nati a Roma e... more
A new critical and digital edition of Luca Marenzio’s sixth book of madrigals for five voices.
Investigates the high incidence of conventional patterns in Marenzio's music of the 1580s. From proceedings of a conference on Marenzio in Rome in 2005.
_Studi Marenziani_, ed. Ian Fenlon and Franco Piperno (Venice: Fondazione Levi, 2003), 241-53. Situates Marenzio's madrigals of the 1590s within the broad spectrum of the 1590s, including a direct comparison of Marenzio's and Luzzaschi's... more
At the end of 1582 Pietro Ponzio, maestro di cappella of Milan’s cathedral (Duomo), left his position: he would be replaced by Giulio Cesare Gabussi, a young musician found by archbishop Carlo Borromeo himself after an epistolary exchange... more
L'idea del progetto muove dai numerosi studi dedicati in ambito letterario e artistico al rituale del ritratto dell'amata. Petrarca per primo aveva immaginato che la sua Laura fosse stata ritratta “in carte” da Simone Martini, componendo... more
The pdf uploaded below includes the first and the last paper of ‘Music and patronage: a debate’ – the central section of 'Perspectives on Luca Marenzio’s secular music', a book edited by Mauro Calcagno and published by Brepols... more
Marenzio's motet "Sepelierunt Stephanum" opens with a full-textured phrase, so it isn't immediately clear how it was composed. In this video, Pter Schubert shows how a look at subsequent phrases reveals a structural duo embellished with... more
Review Essay on Recent Researches in the Italian Madrigal, Journal of the American Musicological Society 60 (2007), 201-17 Publications on styles, methods and apparent intended audiences of editions of Italian madrigals and their poetic... more
The idealized image of Luca Marenzio emerging from most biographies of his is challenged by re-evaluating the musician’s multiple relationships with the upper-class patronage of music and the flourishing business of music... more
Despite the fact that Battista Guarini’s fame is mainly due to the success of his Pastor Fido, his production of verse proved one of the most popular poetic resources for composers of the second half of the sixteenth century. My research... more