MUSIC 140A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Francesco Landini, Ballata, Virelai
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Order of how he wrote: tenor, bass, alto, soprano (3421) Giovanni da firenze (1340-50): caccia, con bracchi assai ( with many dogs, ca. First voice is straighter than the second. Wrote a lot of rests - easier to write canons, voices are only together for a short period of time. Vacia, varin, torna, picciolo - names of his dogs. Hunting song, voices hunt after each other. Living in a cave - scene everyone recognizes. Ritornello - diminutive, little thing that returns. *pick favorite song, desert island song (~5min), for next class* Francesco landini (1325-97): ballata, cara mie donna ( my dear lady, after 1360?) Was blind but was able to build and tune organs. From country we call italy today, at some court. More noise, sociable in rome than in paris. In rome, the sun is out all the time, people spend time outside. We would expect italians to be more tuneful based on this (a-b-b-a-a)
