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"Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" ("Innsbruck, I must leave thee") is a German Renaissance song. It was first published as a choral movement by the Franco-Flemish composer Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450–1517); the melody was probably written by him.
The piccolo obbligato is not found in Steele's first version of the song; it appears to have originated in an orchestration by Robert Recker from later in 1901. [1] In New Orleans, Louisiana, Alphonse Picou adapted the piccolo part into a clarinet variation, [2] sometimes considered one of the earliest documented jazz solos. The Picou ...
Many Italian Renaissance composers wrote music either inspired by the concerto delle donne or specifically for them. Between 1581 and 1586 especially, Alfonso's court saw its most "vibrant and culturally productive period, during which its literary and musical talents were focused most keenly on providing repertoire for the ladies ...
One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the third and its inversion, the sixth (in the Middle Ages, thirds and sixths had been considered dissonances, and only perfect intervals were treated as consonances: the perfect fourth the perfect fifth, the octave, and the unison).
The music of Florence is foundational in the history of Western European music.Music was an important part of the Italian Renaissance.It was in Florence that the Florentine Camerata convened in the mid-16th century and experimented with setting tales of Greek mythology to music and staging the result—in other words, the first operas, setting the wheels in motion not just for the further ...
The Journal of Musicology 12, No. 3, Aspects of Musical Language and Culture in the Renaissance: A Birthday Tribute to James Haar (Summer): 287–305. McComb, Todd M. n.d. "O rosa bella: English and Continental Music from the Late Gothic Period. Clemencic Consort – René Clemencic. Arte Nova 59210". www.medieval.org (accessed 16 April 2019).
Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works ...
Very little Italian music remains from the 13th century, so the immediate antecedents of the music of the Trecento must largely be inferred. The music of the troubadors, who brought their lyrical, secular song into northern Italy in the early 13th century after they fled their home regions—principally Provence—during the Albigensian Crusade, was a strong influence, and perhaps a decisive ...