Antico: Frottole intabulate da sonare organi, libro primo (Roma 1517)

Featuring

Maria Luisa Baldassari
Andrea Antico

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Compositional Technique

Andrea Antico's keyboard transcriptions of frottole maintain all original voices, unlike lute tablatures, and enrich the upper voice with scales, trills, and passing notes.

Historical Context

Andrea Antico convinced Pope Leo X to cancel the exclusive printing privilege for keyboard music held by Ottaviano Petrucci, a leading music printer, because Petrucci had not used it.

Composer Biography

Andrea Antico (1470/1480 - 1540 ca.) was a unique figure in music history, working as an engraver, printer, and musician.

Composition History

This collection, Frottole intabulate per sonare organi libro primo, is the first printed keyboard tablature ever, consisting of frottole.

Composition History

Antico's Frottole intabulate per sonare organi libro primo (1517) was an attempt to create a new editorial line for keyboard music, though it had no known follow-up publications.

Instruments

The organ used on this recording, by Vincenzo Colombi (1533) in Valvasone, is one of the few early 16th-century Italian organs restored to its original sound disposition.

Interpretation

The album features a variety of period keyboard instruments, including clavichord, harpsichord, organ, spinet, and hammer clavisimbalum, to offer a diverse soundscape.