AA.VV.
This volume, preserved in the Biblioteca Comunale Classense of Ravenna ( MS 545), is one of the most important seventeenth-century anthologies in manuscript of Italian music for keyboard (organ and/or harpsichord). The source is laid out in accordance with the graphic conventions of so-called Italian tabulature for keyboard. This consists of two systems, one of five lines and the other of seven, which correspond to the right and left hand, respectively. The manuscript contains eleven pieces composed by Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), eleven others by Ercole Pasquini (ca.1540-ca.1620), a canzona by Antonio Cifra (1584-1629), a toccata attributed to Andrea Gabrieli (1510-1586), a canzona attributed to Tarquinio Merula (1590-1665), another to Cesare Argentini (an otherwise unknown composer), and thirty-four anonymous pieces, totaling in all 60 compositions. This manuscript was surely compiled for various reasons: as a collection of compositional models; as training for keyboard-playing and composition; as a sampling of useful pieces for the liturgy; and merely as recreation.
Tracklist
Gioseffo da Ravenna,
Libro di Fra' Gioseffo da Ravenna
1 - Libro di Fra' Gioseffo da Ravenna: Monica (2:57)
Archilei, Antonio|Bardi, Giovanni de'|Caccini, Giulio|Cavalieri, Emilio de'|Malvezzi, Cristofano|Marenzio, Luca
La pellegrina
2 - La pellegrina: Aria, "Il ballo del granduca": O che nuovo miracolo (6:04)
Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, Book 2
3 - Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti: Canzon II (4:21)
Gioseffo da Ravenna,
Libro di Fra' Gioseffo da Ravenna
4 - Ricercare (2:13)
5 - Ricercare (1:39)
6 - Toccata (4:47)
7 - Toccata (2:20)
8 - Romena (5:09)
9 - La barriera (3:09)
Merula, Tarquinio
Canzon
10 - Canzon (3:54)
Gioseffo da Ravenna,
Libro di Fra' Gioseffo da Ravenna
11 - Ricercare (2:26)
12 - Cappellina (3:13)
13 - D'Incerto (3:17)
14 - Pavaniglia (2:01)
Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, Book 2
15 - Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti: Gagliarda prima (1:07)
Pasquino, Hercol
Pass'e mezzo
16 - Pass'e mezzo (3:46)
Gioseffo da Ravenna,
Libro di Fra' Gioseffo da Ravenna
17 - Libro di Fra' Gioseffo da Ravenna: Brano senza titolo (1:15)
Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Partite sopra L'Aria della Romanesca
18 - Partite sopra L'Aria della Romanesca (12:21)
- Composer: AA.VV.
- Performers: Silvia Rambaldi, harpsichord
- Historical Period: Early Baroque
- Code: TC 600004
- Edition: 2001
- Barcode: 8007194101966
- Set: 1
- Total tracks: 18
- Total duration: 01:06:09