The music of medieval Italy is less familiar than that of France in the same era, and it's quite different in style from the complex art of Machaut and his predecessors. So any recording that gives listeners a taste of Italian genres is welcome. Christo è nato offers examples of a praise song type called the lauda, most of them on texts having to do with the nativity. These pieces, drawn from a manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, date from the late twelfth century. They are incompletely notated; what ...
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The music of medieval Italy is less familiar than that of France in the same era, and it's quite different in style from the complex art of Machaut and his predecessors. So any recording that gives listeners a taste of Italian genres is welcome. Christo è nato offers examples of a praise song type called the lauda, most of them on texts having to do with the nativity. These pieces, drawn from a manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, date from the late twelfth century. They are incompletely notated; what survives is a single line of notation, but improvised rhythmic and/or polyphonic treatments may have occurred. The mood of the music, insofar as we can determine it, seems to have been devotional and direct; texts are in Italian and Latin. A few more complex, French-influenced pieces by Johannes Ciconia and his contemporaries are added; these date from over a century later, so the contrast they form with the lauda-type works is to some degree a misleading one.Certainly this kind of...
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Add this copy of Christo Nato-Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Italy to cart. $11.99, very good condition, Sold by Goodwill rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brooklyn Park, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by MSR Classics.
