Landini Love Songs
Landini Love Songs |
Period: Medieval
Born: c. 1325 in Fiesole, Italy
Died: Saturday, September 2, 1397 in Florence,
Italy
Nation of Origin: Italy
Major Works:
Madrigals
Cacce
Ballate
Non avrà má pietà
Sy dolce non sonò
De dimmi tu
Other Information:
He was born in Fiesole, Italy and was rendered blind by smallpox as
a child. He played many instruments including lute, flute, and
organ. His virtuosity on the organ made him famous. He worked in
Florence at the San Lorenzo church from 1365 until his death in
1397. He was a master of the "Ars Nova" style of the 14th century.
He and Machaut were the chief music representatives of their
period.
Landini wrote no music to sacred texts. His extant works comprise
about 90 2-part and 50 3-part ballate, besides a couple of cacce
and a dozen madrigals. Many of the 3-part ballate are like
Machaut's French ballades, for solo voice with two accompanying
parts. It should always be remembered, however, that there was
never any fixed way of performing secular works of this era.
Landini's music is most important for its suave harmonies. No
parallel 2nds and 7ths as in 13th c. and few if any parallel fifths
and octaves. Instead, full triad sonorities are plentiful, though
never used as first or final chords.
Landini Cadence - This cadence is characterized by a movement from
sixth to octave ornamented by a lower auxliary leaping up a third
in the upper part. Sometimes the two voices that rise to the final
chord do so by semitone motion, either written or by musica ficta.
This form of the cadence is known as the double leading-tone
cadence.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Reese, Gustave, Music in the Middle Ages : With
an Introduction on the Music of Ancient Times, W.W. Norton
& Company, October 1940, ISBN: 0393097501
Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient
World , W. W. Norton & Company, 1943, ASIN:
0393097188
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Links to essays at other sites:
 Music in the Medieval World by Albert Seay |
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Biographical essay at the Karadar site
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