Opera was born, the inquirer into the genre's origins soon learns, when a group of Florentine experimenters trying to revive the power of ancient drama hit on a new kind of musical declamation. More obscure is the long history of such experiments over almost the entire Renaissance period, even though what was being reborn in the "Renaissance" was the culture of the ancient world. Daedalus ensemble director Roberto Festa notes in his booklet essay that the music sampled here "has escaped the attention of musicologists and ...
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Opera was born, the inquirer into the genre's origins soon learns, when a group of Florentine experimenters trying to revive the power of ancient drama hit on a new kind of musical declamation. More obscure is the long history of such experiments over almost the entire Renaissance period, even though what was being reborn in the "Renaissance" was the culture of the ancient world. Daedalus ensemble director Roberto Festa notes in his booklet essay that the music sampled here "has escaped the attention of musicologists and interpreters." The program offers attempts by various mid-Renaissance composers -- French, German, and Flemish-Italian -- to adapt what they knew of the rules of classical poetry to the evolving art of polyphonic text-setting. A few of these pieces show up in historical anthologies; Claude Le Jeune's "musique mesurée" chansons and Cipriano de Rore's O sonno (which seems tangentially rather than directly related to the main theme) are known to those who paid attention in music history...
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