Composer: Jacopo da Bologna, Lorenzo da Firenze, Francesco Landini, Matteo da Perugia
Performer: Ensemble Alba Musica Kyo
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Channel
Catalogue: CCS5793
Release: 1993
Size: 222 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: Saltarello (I)
02. Landini: Gram piant’ agli ochi
03. Landini: Conviens’a fede fe
04. Landini: Donna, la mente mia
05. Landini: De! dinmi tu che
06. Landini: S’i’ti son stato
07. anon.: Lamento di Tristano
08. anon.: Saltarello (II)
09. Bologna: Vestisse la cornacchia
10. Bologna: I’ mi son un
11. Perugia: Sera quel zorno
12. anon.: Estampie
13. Firenze: A poste messe veltr’ e gran mastini
14. Firenze: Povero çappator in chiusa valle
15. Firenze: Non so qual’ i’ mi voglia
16. Firenze: Come in sul fonte fu preso Narciso
Music of the Trecento At the dawn of the fourteenth century, the Trecento, an Italian tradition of polyphonic music with texts in the vernacular tongue began to develop. The first centres were the towns and courts of Lombardy in the north. Before, French musical and literary influence had been strong both by the imported culture of emigrated troubadours from Southern France and by some of the teachers at the Paduan university who had studied music at the University of Paris. The new Italian style was different from the contemporary French music, being less intellectual and more expressive with the realistic images in the text. Only near the end of the Trecento the two styles came to be fused…