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Costanzo Festa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Costanzo Festa , c.1490-1545, Italian composer. An early madrigalist, Festa combined Flemish and Italian influences in his works and in turn influenced Palestrina. His Te Deum (1516) is still sung by the pontifical choir at the election of a new pope. Author not available, FESTA, COSTANZO. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Festa, Costanzo
Festa, Costanzo ( b c. 1490; d Rome, 1545). It. composer. Choirmaster at Vatican. Comp. masses, motets, and other church mus., his Te Deum still being sung at election of new Pope. Also wrote madrigals, one known in Eng. as Down in a Flowery Vale . Read more

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	Costanzo Festa.(Sound Recording Reviews)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review) ; Costanzo Festa. La Spagna: 32 Contrapunti. Huelgas-Ensemble...Mundi HMC 901799, 2003. In September 1536, Costanzo Festa asked his patron Filippo Strozzi to intercede...hoping that the publisher would print Festa's large collection of variations on a... Read more
	La Spagna: Variations ; FESTA La Spagna: Variations * Paul van...17th centuries but did not include Costanzo Festa (c. 1490-1545), who composed a cycle...Oddly, van Nevel offers just 32 of Festa's variations, and Paniagua's CD has...over Europe. For this selection of Festa's cycle, van Nevel uses two period... Read more
	Hope, happenstance led to Italian reunion; An ocean divided them, but a Burnsville man's search for his father's birthplace has brought together long-lost cousins in an old Italian family.(NEWS) ; ...where the vineyards had turned gold and red. In the San Costanzo town hall, he and his wife, Linda, blew dust off big...father, Secondo Peitro Del Moro, had emigrated from San Costanzo when he was 4. A worker at Ellis Island renamed him...Linda as he signed for a registered letter from San Costanzo. For ... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...are the works of some slightly less-central figures: Costanzo Festa, Alfonso and Domenico Ferrabosco, Giovanni Gabrieli...the simple homophonic style of Philippe Verdelot and Festa; and Giacomo Fogliano (vol. 13), a Modenese frottolist... Read more
	Music at the Court of Emperor Maximilian I.(Concentus Musicus Wien)(Sound Recording Review) ; ...features brief works both sacred and secular, though mostly secular, by Heinrich Isaac, Antoine Brumel, Josquin des Prez, Costanzo Festa, Pierre de la Rue, Ludwig Senfl, Paul Hofhaimer, and a handful of anonymous composers. The program is nicely varied... Read more
	Curry College lists its 2008 graduates ; ...Brian MacGregor, Ryan O'Shea. MARSHFIELD - Kevin Coyne, Amy Festa, Arthur Shaw, Katherine Sibley. MILTON - Heather Choate, Elaine...Garrett Joyce, Steven Misdea, Emily Struzziery. KINGSTON - Suzie Costanzo, Barbara Greene. MARSHFIELD - Evan Barrows, David Beck, Matthew... Read more
	(book review) ; ...Acknowledgments, p. vii; 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... Read more
	OBITUARIES ; ...Arrangements: Houghton Funeral Home, Jersey City. FRANK P. COSTANZO, 84, of Hackensack died Sunday. Before retiring, he was a commercial...DERICKS FISHER, 83, of West Paterson died Saturday. Arrangements: Festa Memorial Funeral Home, Totowa. CHARLES L. LEAVENS, 78, of Secaucus... Read more
	Singers find splendor ; ...itself and of the performing approach. The Credo was part of a pastiche Mass -- Kyrie by Josquin Desprez, Gloria by Costanzo Festa, Sanctus also by Palestrina, Agnus Dei by Luca Marenzio -- woven among motets by Johannes Bonnevin, Johannes Mouton... Read more
	Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Painter, 1538-1569: A Descriptive Bibliography and Historical Study, vol 2, 1550-1559.(Review) ; ...surprisingly) had conservative tastes, gravitating toward what she calls old favorites - Jacques Arcadelt, Philippe Verdelot, Costanzo Festa, and Jacquet de Berchem - as well as the successful volumes of easier duos and trios. The music of these composers... Read more

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