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Gesualdo, Don Carlo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Gesualdo, Don Carlo , Prince of Venosa ( b Naples, c. 1560; d Gesualdo, Avellino, 1613). It. composer and lutenist...1590 his first wife and her lover were murdered on Gesualdo's orders, an event which is explored in a book...
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Gray, Cecil
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Temptation of St Anthony , and The Trojan Women . Wrote lib. on Gesualdo for opera by Walton, but no mus. was comp. His reputation...which incl. A Survey of Contemporary Music (1924), Carlo Gesualdo , Musician and Murderer (with P. Heseltine) (1926), History...
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Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...antithesis Strauss, he was a time-traveller, at home in centuries other than his own. Yet when he touched Pergolesi, Gesualdo, and Tchaikovsky, they became Stravinskyan re-creations. Where the prin. features of Strauss's mus. are complex harmonic...
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Phillips, Peter
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Eng. conductor. Founded choir, Tallis Scholars, 1978, which quickly won high reputation for perfs. of works by Lassus, Gesualdo, Victoria, Josquin, Byrd, Taverner, Palestrina, and others. Toured Australia 1984, Amer. 1988. Proms dé...
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Nenna, Pomponio
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Nenna, Pomponio ( b Bari, c. 1550; d Rome, 1613). It. composer influenced by Gesualdo , in whose service he was employed c. 1594–9. Pubd. seven books of madrigals, six for 5 vv. 1582–1608...
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madrigal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...in the hands of Lassus , Palestrina , and A. Gabrieli and achieved its finest flowering in the works of Donati, Marenzio, Gesualdo, and, especially, Monteverdi. In the 17th cent. it was superseded by the cantata. The singing of It. madrigals was imported...
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modulation
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...First composers to use modulation may have been Obrecht and Desprès. Chromatic modulation occurs in madrigals of Gesualdo and Monteverdi . John Bull's organ fantasia Ut , re , mi , fa , sol , la modulates a whole tone upward successively into...
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Molinaro, Simone
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Molinaro, Simone ( b Genoa, c. 1565; d Genoa, 1615). It. composer. Choirmaster, Genoa Cath., from c. 1602. Wrote motets, masses, madrigals, canzonets, church mus., but principally works for lute. Ed. Gesualdo's six books of 5-vv. madrigals, 1613.
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D'India, Sigismondo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Monteverdi. Collections of his works were pubd. in Milan and Venice from 1609 to 1623. Blended styles of Marenzio, Wert, Gesualdo, and Monteverdi into a rich polyphonic style of his own, with daring harmonies and treatment of dissonance.
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Maxwell Davies, (Sir) Peter
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...1971); Hymn to St Magnus , sop., chamber ens. (1972); Fool's Fanfare , sop., ens. (1972); Tenebrae super Gesualdo , mez., gui., chamber ens. (1972); Stone Litany , mez., orch. (1973); Fiddlers at the Wedding , mez., chamber...
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