L’Arte della Danssar (from The Art of Dance) (2011)
INSTRUMENTATION: High soprano; fl(pic), va. hp, perc
DURATION: 21 Minutes
PREMIERE: 20 March 2011; Astral Artists; Philadelphia, PA
Text:
Italian, trans. by A. William Smith (nos. 1, 2, and 3) and A.S. Kline (no. 4)
from ‘Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music,’ the complete transcribed Italian treatises and collections in the tradition of Domenica da Piacenza, Volume 1
Italian, trans. by A. William Smith (nos. 1, 2, and 3) and A.S. Kline (no. 4)
from ‘Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music,’ the complete transcribed Italian treatises and collections in the tradition of Domenica da Piacenza, Volume 1
Movements:
1. La Festa del Gientil Ballo — The Festival of Cultured Dance (anon., ca. 1459)
2. Dal ermonia suave — That Sweet Harmony (Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro, ca. 1471)
3. Bassadanza Chiamata REALE, per doi — BASSADANZA called REALE, for two (Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro, ca. 1471)
4. Trionfo di Bacco ed Arianna — The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne (Lorenzo de’ Medici)