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Ortiz - Ad Vesperas | Alpha ALPHA108

Ortiz - Ad Vesperas

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA108

Barcode: 3760014191084

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th March 2007

Contents

Artists

Cantar Lontano
Il Suonar Parlante

Conductor

Marco Mencoboni

Artists

Cantar Lontano
Il Suonar Parlante

Conductor

Marco Mencoboni

About

The Spanish composer Diego Ortiz worked from 1555 to 1570 at the vice-regal court of the Duke of Alba in Naples. In 1565, he had a collection of sacred music published under the title Musices liber primus-Hymnos, Magnificat, Salves, Motecta, Psalmos aliaque diersa cantica complectens, printed in Venice by Antonio Gardano, from which the polyphonic pieces contained in this disc are extracted.

His publications consist of this volume of sacred music and a treatise of outstanding importance on viol playing, the 'Tratado de glosas sobre cláusulas y otros géneros de puntos en la música de violones' of 1553. This is a noteworthy source of Renaissance ornamentation and improvisational practice, containing variations on stock basses, arrangements of madrigals where the viol plays ornamental figures to a keyboard accompaniment, cadential embellishments and so on. His techniques led to the English 'divisions on a ground' and the improvisatory, viola bastarda style.

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