Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century

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Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century

• Trecento
• Madrigal
• Caccia
• Ballata

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Madrigal

• Secular song type
• Subjects love, satire, pastoral
• Each stanza set to the same music

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NAWM 22 Fenice fù (optional)

• By Jacopo da Bologna
• Both voices are meant to be sung
• Upper voice is more florid

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Caccia

• "chase"
• Canon at the unison

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Ballata

• song to accompany dancing
• plural ballate

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Francesco Landini (ca. 1325-1397)

• leading composer of trecento
• leading composer of ballate
• blind since boyhood
• Virtuoso on small organ (organetto)

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NAWM 23 Non avrà ma pietà

• "Landini cadence" (mm. 5-6 and 10-11) in which
  upper voice descends before leaping a third to
  the resolution
• Double leading-tone cadence (mm.3-4) in which
  both voices rise by half-step

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Landini cadence