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    The frottola (pronounced [ˈfrɔttola]; plural frottole) was the predominant type of Italian popular secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth...
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    composers in the 1520s partly originated from the three-to-four voice frottola (1470–1530); partly from composers' renewed interest in poetry written...
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  • El Grillo (The Cricket) is a frottola by Josquin des Prez. Possibly written in the late 15th to early 16th century, it is regarded as one of Josquin's...
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  • composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most prolific composers of frottola after Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino. Of his early life, almost...
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    rising popularity of more popular, more homophonic vocal genres such as the frottola and the villanella. In these latter two genres, the increasing tendency...
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  • Ferrara. Pesenti was one of the most lively and inventive of the so-called frottola composers, including Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino. "Ha' tu...
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    Italian ("Canzoniere di Montecassino", "Canzoniere di Perugia" and in the frottola repertoire) and Spanish sources (mainly in the "Cancionero Musical de Palacio"...
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    Tromboncino and Marchetto Cara) which contributed to popularizing the frottola. Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga founded an ecclesiastical chapel which employed...
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  • possibly criminal life, much of his music is in the light current form of the frottola, a predecessor to the madrigal. He was a trombonist, as shown by his name...
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  • and along with Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was well known as a composer of frottolas. Very little is known of his early life. By 1494 he was already employed...
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    rising popularity of more popular, more homophonic vocal genres such as the frottola and the villanella. In these latter two genres, the increasing tendency...
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    published in England, Germany and Holland. Italy had forms of song such as the frottola that were much like the lute song, but the lute song seemed more prominent...
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    mass, the motet, and the laude; secular forms included the chanson, the frottola, and later the madrigal. The invention of printing had an immense influence...
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    he left, he most likely wrote two secular compositions, the well-known frottola El Grillo ("The Cricket"), and In te Domine speravi ("I have placed my...
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    poetry is varied with a number of different poetical forms, including frottola, barzelletta, madrigal, and canzona. Because of the pastoral subject and...
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  • Barzelletta (lit. "jest") was a popular verse form used by frottola composers in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is generally trochaic...
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    songs for voice and lute, which were particularly popular in Italy (see frottola) and England. The earliest surviving lute music is Italian, from a late...
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    independent of churches. The main types were the German Lied, Italian frottola, the French chanson, the Italian madrigal, and the Spanish villancico....
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  • use of chromaticism and often complex, highly expressive melody lines. Frottola – Italian secular song. Glosa – Type of sacred music composition in 16th...
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  • Length 1. "Frottola 'A La Guerra'" Franciscus Bossinensis 2:16 2. "Frottola 'Tu Dormi Io Veglio'" Franciscus Bossinensis 2:29 3. "Frottola 'Non E Tempo'"...
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    papirløse til festning Europa" - (Aschehoug, Norge, 2012) "L'Eco della frottola" - (Rizzoli, Italia, 2010) "Viki som ville gå i skolan" - (Karneval förlag...
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  • settings were generally chordal and strophic (often ABBC), similar to the frottola, which was then popular in Mantua. The A and B stanzas were typically in...
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  • the Flemish polyphonic "northern heritage" which raised the indigenous frottola and villota into the late-renaissance, early-baroque 4 and 5 voice madrigal...
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    style of the Italian composers current at the time, who were writing frottolas (the light and popular predecessor to the madrigal). Compère had a gift...
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  • possible composition of his survives, the doubtfully attributed four-voice frottola, "Io non posso piu durare", from Petrucci's Fifth Book of Frottole (1505)...
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  • his northern homeland, to the native secular music of Italy such as the frottola, to the music he heard while he served in the Sistine Chapel choir. Of...
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  • in Venice. He published two collections of lute music (containing 126 frottolas and 46 ricercares), printed by the Venetian printing house of Ottaviano...
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    Arte Lombarda. 64 (4): 102–116. JSTOR 43105426. Harrán, Don (2001). "Frottola". In Chater, James (ed.). Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University...
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  • debile il filo", frottola, and the earliest known setting of a Petrarchan canzone; later published in Petrucci's seventh book of frottolas (Venice, 1507)...
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    Since La Rue never spent time in Italy, he did not employ the Italian frottola style which featured light, homophonic textures (which Josquin used so...
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