Ottaviano Petrucci

Boorman, Stanley

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195142075.001.0001

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“…To a different degree, other sources compiled in the decade after ModE reveal that a keen (if not quite as besetting an) interest in the genre existed in northern Italy. As Table 1 shows 35 After this time, the proportion of strambotti in musical collections seems to decrease to roughly 10%. 36 It is difficult to offer a comprehensive explanation, as any number of parameters may have contributed to this trend, including the taste of individual collectors, specific geographical predilections and the availability of musical material.…”

Section: Strambotti and Musicmentioning

confidence: 94%

‘You Will Take This Sacred Book’: The Musical Strambotto as a Learned Gift

Zanovello¹

2016

J. R. Music. Assoc.

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The MS Modena, Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, α.F.9.9 is by far the most lavish collection produced in the short-lived history of the musical frottola. In its pages, unassuming four-voice secular settings are preceded by citations from Pliny and Isidore and surrounded by dazzling illuminations of birds, fruits and plants. If splendour is never amiss in gifts, one must wonder what the relationship was between the components of this intriguing artefact. In this article I investigate the gift value of the source by examining the musical repertory and style in conjunction with its other features. I propose that musical strambotti enabled fifteenth-century educated Italians to perform symbolic gestures associated with ancient music. The repertory was also perfectly congruous with the poetic and decorative choices made for the manuscript. The examination of this peculiar source helps shed more light on the musical strambotto, its uses and its implied cultural associations.

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Section: Strambotti and Musicmentioning

confidence: 94%