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This is a list of online digital musical document libraries. Each source listed below offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources). They may contain scanned images, fully encoded scores, or encodings designed for music playback (e.g., via MIDI).
The music of the Trecento pioneered new forms of expression, especially in secular song and in the use of vernacular language, Italian. In these regards, the music of the Trecento may seem more to be a Renaissance phenomenon; however, the predominant musical language was more closely related to that of the late Middle Ages, and musicologists ...
Maestro Piero (before 1300 – c. 1350) Gherardello da Firenze (c. 1320/1325 – c. 1362) Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – 1360) Giovanni da Cascia (Giovanni da Firenze) (14th century) Vincenzo da Rimini (14th century) Lorenzo da Firenze (Lorenzo Masini) (died 1372/1373) Francesco Landini (c. 1325/1335 – 1397)
The original author of the music may be Josef Mysliveček. A slightly different version of the aria appears with the text "Il caro mio bene" in a manuscript of Mysliveček's Armida (1779). Cesare Olivieri, Il trionfo della pace [1] between 1772 and 1775 178: 417e "Ah, spiegarti, oh Dio" (Score/Crit. report) Aria for soprano and orchestra (piano ...
Before 1500. Italy was the site of several key musical developments in the development of the Christian liturgies in the West. Around 230, well before Christianity was legalized, the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus attested the singing of Psalms with refrains of Alleluia in Rome.
The joyful first movement, in sonata form, is followed by an impression in the subdominant minor of D minor of a religious procession the composer witnessed in Naples. The third movement is a minuet in which French horns are introduced in the trio, while the final movement (which is in the parallel minor key throughout) incorporates dance figurations from the Roman saltarello and the ...
A drama set to music for singers and instrumentalists Opera buffa: humorous opera: A comic opera Opera semiseria: semi-serious opera: A variety of opera Opera seria: serious opera: An opera with a serious, esp. classical theme Operetta: little opera: A variety of light opera Oratorio: oratory: Large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and ...
Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading opera composer of the mid 17th-century. A central figure of Venetian musical life, Cavalli wrote more than ...