Cori Spezzati

Brazilian, from Rio de Janeiro. 29yo. Artist > Musician > Composer, Musicologist, Performer. This is a website about the practice and consequences of the Cori Spezzati technique, one of the turning points in western music history. If you're new here,...

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Amplificar

Tudo anda parado por aqui porque estou ali no Amplificar, ruleando as cadeiras.

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(The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815 - John Spitzer, Neal Zaslaw - p. 61)

This is amazing. 150 people playing, in 1628. That's something we'd usually conceive as being a 19th Century activity.

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Annibale's techniques for coping with the large number of voices are principally the syncopation of part movement across chord changes where the chords have a not or two in common, and close imitation of simples scale and/or arpeggio figures which fit in with the slow-moving harmony of full sections.

Cori Spezzati vol. I - Anthony F. Carver, page 71

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Oh well, you can’t reblog an answered “Ask”. So, here’s the link for it, check it if you need resources for Italian language.

http://pintu.tumblr.com/post/31947948139/hey-pintu-i-need-some-help-with-italian-ive-come

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Cori battenti?

So yay for new term on the Cori Spezzati theme, that is: Cori battenti. I'm not sure on the definition for now, but D'Alessi in 1954 explicitly mentions that it's not Cori Spezzati. Many trustful sources say they're both the same, but many others also mention that Cori Spezzati is the same as Polychoral, so brace yourselves, more's coming.

I'm now rebloging a great answer I got from Sam (http://pintu.tumblr.com < read daily for personal growth) on working out the translation of the term.

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I’ve been absent from Tumblr for a while now. I’d like to explain why this is happening to my lovely followers:

As I said before, I’m a contestant to a Master’s Degree spot on Comparative History. I’m running to one of the most important universities of Brazil, the UFRJ. And it’s a killer...

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I know the feeling. Keep it up!

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Hello there, greetings from the US! I teach music history at a university in Ohio and have just come across your website while browsing the web for a polychoral work by Samuel Scheidt. Have you come across this composer, and also Michael Praetorius? Two great composers (and there are more in northern Europe!) who wrote polychoral music. All best, and greetings! Arne

Hey Arne, thanks for heads up!

Both composers are mentioned in Anthony Carver's book and I've heard some music by them, especially by Scheidt. I also had the pleasure to attend a concert by SacraVox last month in which a Scheidt piece was sung. I'll definitely post some music written by them soon!Can you point some other from the northern lands? Although I'm now focusing on Willaert and both Gabrielli, most of the composers I've seen are around the are of Veneto, in regions like southern France and southern Germany. Many thanks :D

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San Rocco, Venice

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Thomas Coryat (sometimes spelled Coryate), whose book of travels is one of the liveliest English productions of the early seventeenth century. Coryat was a jester, a professional funnyman who was treated by all who knew him as if he were unintentionally funny, the butt of everyone's (more or less) good-natured laughter. One sees that was Coryat's way of maneuvering through life: he had no money and no family, and his position as buffoon had a certain value. He published his travels, giving the book the deliberately funny title of Coryat Crudities—"crudities" as in crudités, mere uncooked antipasto, trifles that don't make a meal, let alone a banquet. Such self-deprecation is necessary because Coryat is a man of humble station, and practically penniless—he is the opposite of the proper traveler, the young aristocrat on the Grand Tour, like a Philip Sidney.

Tropic of Venice, by Margaret Anne Doody, page 118.

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"Sometimes there sung sixteene or twenty men together, having their master or moderator to keepe them in order; and when they sung, the instrumental musitians played also. Sometimes sixteene played together on their instruments, ten Sagbuts, four Cornets, and two Violdegambaees of an extraordinary greatness; sometimes tenne, sixe Sagbuts and foure Cornets; sometimes two, a Cornet and a treble violl. Of those treble viols I heard severall there, whereof each was so good, especially one that I observed above the rest, that I never heard the like before. Those that played upon the treble viols, sung and played together, and sometimes, two singular fellowes played together upon Theorboes, to which they sung also, who yeelded admirable sweet musicke, but so still they could scarce be heard but by those that were very neare them ... At every time that every severall musicke played, the Organs, whereof there are seven faire paire in that room, standing al in a rowe together, plaied with them..."

Crudities, by Thomas Coryat - describing a performance at the Scuola di San Rocco on the Feast of San Rocco, 16 August 1608.

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I've just came across Fred Curtis Kiser's thesis on a very important work by Ignazio Donati. Kiser's text is entitled 'A scholarly edition of Ignazio Donati's "Salmi boscarecci"' and it was concluded in 2010. The HUGE extent (836pp!) of the pdf file includes contextualization and analysis on its first section (1-122pp) and from then on Salmi boscarecci is presented in a new edition. Wow!

In his words: "This thesis presents a complete scholarly edition of Ignazio Donati’s Salmi boscarecci, a collection of Vespers music for multiple choirs composed while Donati was working for the city of Casalmaggiore between 1621 and 1623."

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1638 - The Italian composer Ignazio Donati, who had worked his way up from maestro di cappella of the cathedrals in Urbino, Pesaro and Fano to that of the Accademia dello Spirito Santo in Ferrara and eventually, the Duomo of Milan, and had greatly contributed to the genre of concerto motet, died in the capital of the duchy. 

1665 - Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian composer who had been in the service of the Aldobrandini family, died in Rome at the age of 72.

(still) 1665 - The Neapolitan composer Giuseppe Alfiero, maestro di cappella of the city of Naples, died in his native city. 

1749 - The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, inaugurated in 1732 with Vivaldi’s pastoral drama La fida ninfa, was destroyed by a fire.

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I'm sorry for the quiet moment of this tumblr! I'm back from the IV Encontro de Musicologia de Ribeirão Preto and we'll be back to our regular shows now!

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Giovanni Gabrieli - Motet: Omnes Gentes à 16 (4x4)

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Majestic! :D

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Heinrich Schütz - Alleluja! Lobet den Herren (Psalm 150), SWV 38 - For 4 choirs and orchestra.

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AMAZING! Really incredible.