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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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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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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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Corsi, Jacopo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...responsible for prod. of Peri's Euridice . Wealth came from banking, wool, and silk. When Bardi left Florence in 1592, Corsi was leading artistic patron and befriended Torquato Tasso, Carlo Gesualdo, Ottavio Rinuccini, and Jacoppo Peri.
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Dallapiccola, Luigi
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire made a deep impression on him, in addition to his existing passion for Debussy, Monteverdi, and Gesualdo. In the late 1920s he taught, gave pf. recitals, and in 1934 joined the pf. staff of the Cons. Cherubini. Travelling...
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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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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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Jeffreys, George
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...one work being published in lifetime. Wrote mainly church mus., influenced by It. Baroque, particularly Monteverdi and Gesualdo. Collected works ed. Peter Aston , from 1970. Works incl. 35 Eng. anthems, over 70 Latin settings, secular songs, str...
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chromaticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...chromaticism. 1. The use of chromatic intervals and chromatic chords. 2. A style of composing using chromatic harmony. Gesualdo in 16th cent. used advanced chromaticism. Bach's experiments in chromaticism were based on diatonic principles. The age...
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