‘This set is obviously the outcome of a thorough, deeply pondered approach. It more then renders justice to Sweelinck’s music by bringing out its variety.

Though Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck performed improvisations on the keyboard daily for many years in Amsterdam, we only have very scant traces of his actual surviving music. Lower and a bit easier Version. Editor Pierre Gouin - Contact. The theme of the dep, later known as “Aria di Fiorenza” or “Ballo del Granduca”, quickly gained renown in Europe and became the basis for at least other songs, contemporary and later. Retrieved from ” https: Inspired by this theme, several composers produced variationsincluding Adriano BanchieriGiovanni Girolamo Kapspergerand Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

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Organ Music from the Golden Age. Intabulation in french Lute-tablature for 2 lutes Ad Secundam. Master of the Dutch Renaissance. Columbia River Entertainment Group. Because some of his students, such as Samuel Scheidtadded variations to his different compositions Scheidt and Sweelinck, in Pavana Hispanicacombined a series of alternating variationssome scholars hypothesize that Sweelinck wrote parts of Ballo del Granducabaloo Scheidt also contributed.

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The theme of the composition, which forms the basis for the variations, offers the improviser considerable of freedom. Unfortunately, they allow some infelicities in the voice-leading to be a bit xel prevalent; perhaps these were “guest” variations after all.

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Fewer than pieces survive, and nearly all are handwritten copies by other people. Creative Commons Attribution 4. If performed I would look forward about a small reference to my efforts.

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This unfortunately leads to the question of authenticity: Twelve Organs of Edinburgh. Les Plus Belles Orgues. From the Italian style Sweelinck assimilated the beauty of counterpointwhile from the virginalists he developed the virtuosity of passages, arpeggiosand vallo ornamentation. The composition is based on the theme of a dance of entitled “O che nuova miracolo”, an intermedio from the comedy Intermedi della Pellegrinacomposed by Emilio de’ Cavalieri on the occasion of the wedding of Ferdinando I de’ Medici to Christina of Lorraine.

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The style of the composition is influenced by the two major currents of the period: These file s are part of the Werner Icking Music Collection. The first variation shows several passages for the right hand with eighth notes and sixteenth noteswhile the left hand performs an accompaniment in chords with two and three voices. Languages Italiano Edit links. Performer Pages Grxnduca Ligoratti Harpsichord.

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The dance includes a theme although the score labels it 1e Variatie and four variations or five, if we count the theme as a first variation.

Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 3. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4. Famous Works For Organ. The second variation sets a more florid melody over the same harmonic bass that was established in the first; the third reverses the procedure, with a running bass line as an undercurrent to the simple chordal upper voices. Italian polyphony and the technique of English bsllo.

Views Read Edit Granduuca history. The Cuckoo And The Bllo. In the fourth variation, the running melodic voice moves consistently at twice the speed, and the fifth and final variation deploys two ornamental lines. Flanders Recorder Quartet and Friends. Creative Commons Attribution 3.

The “Balletto” Little dance of the Grand Duke that forms the basis for these variations offers the improviser a lot of leeway. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Share on facebook twitter tumblr. Great Organ Builders of America: AllMusic Featured Composition Noteworthy. In both cases, however, the composer adds more rhythmic interest to the other voices, as well, in the twofold balo phrase.

It consists of a series of five short musical phrases lasting four beats each, basically in chordseach one concluded by a cadence.