Frescobaldi's piece 'Eri già tutta mia' is a masterpiece that uses constantly varying meters to create an elusive, almost improvisatory flow, shifting strong beats and making off-beats ambiguous.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Frescobaldi provided explicit instructions for performing his works, emphasizing freedom from a strict beat and allowing performers to 'stop where he or she thinks best'.
Compositional Technique
Frescobaldi used famous ostinato bass lines, such as the Aria di Romanesca and the Ruggieri bass line, both originating from popular music, in pieces like 'Dunque dovrò' and 'Ti lascio anima mia'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The works on this album explore the 'play of opposites'—a concept Monteverdi also noted—where pleasure and anguish, sweetness and feverishness, are often intertwined and difficult to separate.
Composer Biography
At 32 years old, Frescobaldi was already a celebrated and enigmatic musician, considered one of the 'cult composers' alongside figures like Gesualdo and his teacher Luzzasco Luzzaschi.
Composer Biography
Girolamo Frescobaldi, the composer, was engaged at the court of Mantua in 1615 as a replacement for Monteverdi, who had departed for Venice.
Compositional Technique
The term 'barroco' was first applied by Portuguese composers to describe an absence of rules or irregularity in music, like an irregularly-shaped pearl.
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