It is not only today that there are affinities between contemporary music and early music; Stravinsky famously cultivated the connection, and conductor and 12-tone composer Bruno Maderna was a student of Gian Francesco Malipiero, who pioneered the early music movement in Italy. It is quite novel today to hear early music through the ears of someone aware of the musical past but unacquainted with the idea of historical performance. Most of Now, and Then consists of transcriptions of early works by Maderna, and they are ...
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It is not only today that there are affinities between contemporary music and early music; Stravinsky famously cultivated the connection, and conductor and 12-tone composer Bruno Maderna was a student of Gian Francesco Malipiero, who pioneered the early music movement in Italy. It is quite novel today to hear early music through the ears of someone aware of the musical past but unacquainted with the idea of historical performance. Most of Now, and Then consists of transcriptions of early works by Maderna, and they are unusual, both in the selection and in the procedure. Maderna includes works not only by Girolamo Frescobaldi and Giovanni Gabrieli, but also by the lesser-known Giovanni Legrenzi and Ludovico Viadana, and even the totally unknown Dutch official/composer Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, some of whose music was once attributed to Pergolesi (and was recycled in Stravinsky's Pulcinella). As will be seen, these works, all nominally from the Baroque, range over 150 years and include polyphony,...
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