Ensemble Domus Artis & Johannes Keller – Madrigali al tavolino (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:24 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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The thirty-two polyphonic madrigals by Michelangelo Rossi, which are preserved only in manuscript in a score and a set of partbooks, have only recently become known. These pieces are unusual in anumber of ways: on the one hand, for music from the second quarter of the seventeenth century, they seem “conservative”, composed in five parts with two tenor voices instead of two sopranos. On the other hand, they appear to be avant-garde in their vertiginous harmony (chromaticism andmodulations), which lead them, in spite of the traditional counterpoint, far beyond the borders ofharmonic tonality. And they are strikingly “vieltönig”, as this was especially cultivated in Rome of thoseyears. The term “vieltönig” can perhaps be translated as “multitonal” in the literal sense of using many pitches and refers to a conscious use of more than twelve notated pitches per octave.
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