Indecent Music: Myths and Stories from Humanism
This project is based on the premise that the 15th century related the blending of two cultural universes: the written one and the oral one. T
he boundary between the two contexts apparently was so thin that it allowed the two traditions to coexist within the same universe of communication: idioms, allegorical figures and quotations thus converged into the same cultural interpretation angle.
The stories, feelings and characters described by these pieces seem to be indefinite, but actually turn out to be a cross-section of a cultural context that is the repository of ancient knowledge: here, whatever appears is not simply what has been written, but constitutes the representation of a vast container of meanings. “Turlulù e la Rosina”, our 15th century characters, represent vices, virtues, fortune, love, famine, old age, death.
These names are seemingly distant from a higher knowledge, but, in actual fact, are a part of it; as Torrefranca maintained in Il segreto del Quattrocento: “It happens every now and then in folkish poetry, but almost never in popular poetry, because the latter is always realistic and respects historical truth, which, for the people, is a biting stimulus.”
Tracklist
Anonymous; Fogliano, Ludovico
Essendo io in la Messa [15th Century, Forli] - La canzone della mala Zotta (E la zotta sta sul muro)
Fogliano, Ludovico
Fortuna d'un gran tempo / Che fa la ramacina / E si son si son lassame esser / Dagdun dagdun vetusta
Anonymous
Quasi sempre avanti di [Frottole, Libro VII]
Demofonte, Alessandro
A che son hormai conduco
Caprioli, Antonio
E d'un bel matin d'amore
D'Assisi, Rufino
La mi fa solfare
Anonymous
Che faralla, che diralla [Frottole, Libro XI]
Timoteo, Don
Uscirallo o resterallo
Tromboncino, Bartolomeo
Gli e pur cocente 'l fier desir
Ostinato vo seguire
Zephiro spira il bel tempo rimena
Anonymous
Il Marchese di salutio [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Ms 1503]
Scotto, Paolo
Turlulu la capra e mozza
Pesenti, Michele
Io voria esser cholu
Cara, Marchetto
Tante volte si, si, si
Per fuggir d'amor le punte
Anonymous
Un cavalier di spagna [Apografo Miscellaneo Marciano]
L'ultimo di di Maggio un cavalier di Spagna [Bologna ms. Q 21]
Patavino, Francesco
De la da l'acqua
Stringari, Antonio
Son più matti in questo mondo
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