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Costanzo Festa.(Sound Recording Reviews)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Costanzo Festa. La Spagna: 32 Contrapunti. Huelgas-Ensemble/Paul Van Nevel. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901799, 2003.
In September 1536, Costanzo Festa asked his patron Filippo Strozzi to intercede on his behalf with a Venetian publisher, hoping that the publisher would print Festa's large collection of variations on a cantus firmus taken from the popular basse danse known variously as "La basse danse de Spayn," "Tenore del re di Spagna," or, simply, "La Spagna." Although Festa never did succeed in publishing his collection (and the composition was lost from view for the remainder of the century), a manuscript version was kept in a musuem in Bologna; the seventeenth-century composer Lodovico Zacconi was familiar with the pieces and spoke very highly of Festa's achievement. As well he might: Festa's collection consists of no fewer than 125 variations on the basic thirty-seven-note theme, all of them displaying a remarkable level of melodic invention and contrapuntal ...
- Music for the Spanish Kings.
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John November 1, 2001 700+ words
...was a disc made at about the same time, 1980, in analogue, La Spagna, with Gregorio Paniagua and Atrium Musicae de Madrid (BIS CD-163). Of the two, and I hate to admit this, I preferred La Spagna for its closer, more glittering sonics, which tended to breath...
- Madrigali a cinque voci.
- Magazine article from: Notes Macy, Laura December 1, 1996 700+ words
...Marenzio, and Claudio Monteverdi. And filling in the picture further are the works of some slightly less-central figures: Costanzo Festa, Alfonso and Domenico Ferrabosco, Giovanni Gabrieli, Vittoria Aleotti, Salamone Rossi, Benedetto Pallavicino, and...
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Magazine article from: Cineforum Barbera, Alberto; Bocchi, Pier Maria; Borroni, Chiara; Causo, Massimo; Censi, Rinaldo; Chatrian, Carlo; Crespi, Alberto; Emiliani, Simone; Fadda, Michele; Fornara, Bruno; Frambrosi, Andrea; Gandini, Leonardo; Grespi, Barbara; Mariotti, Mattia; Martini, Emanuela; Morreale, Emiliano; Morsiani, Alberto; Nazzaro, Giona A; Pezzotta, Alberto; Tassi, Fabrizio; Termenini, Antonio July 1, 2008 700+ words
...chiamato da Barcellona e mi hanno detto: se glielo finanziamo, viene a girare un film nella nostra citt? Ho pensato: ehi, la Spagna un bel paese, Barcellona cosmopolita e ospitale, mia moglie e i miei figli saranno felicissimi di passarci un'estate...
- LA NOTTE DEI GIRASOLI
- Magazine article from: Cineforum Donghi, Lorenzo July 1, 2008 700+ words
...difficolt, crisi, ristagno, qualunque cosa sia non sembra indagabile con impermeabili confini geografici. Si pensi come la Spagna fatichi a imporre sul mercato estero quei prodotti che, esclusi Almodovar e Amenbar, non trascendono la circolazione interna...
- Le concert des voix et des instruments a la Renaissance: Actes du XXXIVe...
- Magazine article from: Notes Wulstan, David September 1, 1997 700+ words
...et Hoftanz)" where the "Armatures" are the skeleton tunes often disguised by the more elaborate forms, for example, of La Spagna. This seems to me a significant piece of work. Not so Paolo Emilio Carapezza's "Constitutions musicales, structures compositionnelles...
- MARIA MERCADER
- Magazine article from: Cineforum Comuzio, Ermanno June 1, 2008 700+ words
...non senza una certa dose di mistero, di non completamente rivelato. Il tutto immerso nel contesto di paesi ed epoche come la Spagna durante il franchismo e l'Italia durante il fascismo, con episodi come la parentela (lontana, dice De Santi: cuginanza...
- The Si Placet Repertoire of 1480-1530. (Music Reviews).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Elias, Cathy Ann March 1, 2003 700+ words
...introd., p. ix-xxxvii; 5 plates; score, 147 p.; crit. report, p. 149-90. ISBN 0-89579-477-2. $92.] Costanzo Festa. Counterpoints on a Cantus Firmus. Edited by Richard J. Agee. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance...
- IL PASSATO È UNA TERRA STRANIERA
- Magazine article from: Cineforum Mancino, Anton Giulio December 1, 2008 700+ words
...semplice amicizia: scopre cos che Vomico ha manie sadiche nei confronti delle ragazze, ma a suo modo sta al gioco torbido. Dopo la Spagna i due si perdono di vista, finch una notte Giorgio non salva una commessa di un bar dall'ennesima violenza di Francesco...