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Frottola
The frottola (; plural frottole) was the predominant type of Italian popular secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It was the most important and widespread predecessor to
Composers#
Composers of frottole include: * Francesco d’Ana * Giovanni Brocco * Antonio Caprioli * Marchetto Cara * Giacomo Fogliano * Lodovico Fogliano * Erasmus Lapicida * Filippo de Lurano * Rossino Mantovano * Michele Pesenti * Bartolomeo Tromboncino * Michele Vicentino Except for Tromboncino and Cara, who were extremely famous, very little is known about most of these composers; in many cases only their names survive, and those because Petrucci, the prominent Venetian publisher, included their names in collections containing their music.
References#
- Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ()
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ()
- The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986.
Further reading#
- “The Frottolists and their contemporaries”.
- Genre family
- 15th century in music, 16th century in music, Choral music genres, Renaissance music