Cavaccio, Giovanni: 2 Canzoni

for 8 instruments (voices) in 2 choirs.

These two pieces for high and low choirs date from the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Cavaccio piece comes from the end of his Sudori musicali of 1626, a collection consisting essentially of keyboard music written in score; it is headed Offerta in dono al signor Camillo Cortellini detto il Violino Musica Meritissimo dell´ Illustrissima Signoria di Bologna. The Rognoni piece is taken from Canzoni a 4 & 8 voci of 1605, which contains four texted double-choir pieces, each of which is headed "canzon". Giovanni Cavaccio (c. 1556-1626) was born in Bergamo, and seems to have spent his entire life in that city, producing a sizeable amount of church music. Our other composer was one of large family of musicians: his father was Riccardo Rognoni, who published one of the diminution treatises in 1591 and composed some extremely elaborate viola bastarda settings (printed in LPM REP9), and his brother Francesco made an even greater contribution to the same field (Selva di Varii Passago of 1620 - some viola bastarda pieces in LPM REP15). Like Cavaccio, he chose to spend his career in one city, in this case Milan, where he died shortly before 1626. La Porta seems to belong to the category of pieces per cantare e sonare that occur in north Italian collections of this time: another such is Gabrieli´s Lieto godea, already printed in this series. However, the word-setting is not at all compromised here, and Rognoni´s piece is very effective as a purely vocal number. It is the only one of the four double-choir pieces in Rognoni´s collection to have a title (presumably named after Costanzo Porta), and is the most instrumental in character. The original note values have been retained throughout. Editorial accidentals are printed small above the stave, applying to one note only. These pieces may be performed with many different instrumental combinations, but they sound specially effective with trombones or curtals in the lower choir. In La Porta each choir has all the text, which means that it is possible to have voices in one choir, instruments in the other.

Die zweite Canzona stammt von Giovanni Rognoni Taeggio.

Produkt-ID: LPM-EML160

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