Antiche danze ed aria

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Antiche danze ed arie per liuto ( Italian for: “Old Dances and Wise Men for Lute”) is the title of a series of orchestral suites by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi . In the neoclassical work, the composer draws on transcriptions of lute and guitar tablatures from the 16th and 17th centuries, edited by the Italian musicologist Oscar Chilesotti (1848–1916), and arranged them for modern instruments. The subtitle of the work is Trascrizione libera per orchestra (free transcriptions for orchestra).

1. Suite (1917)

  1. Balletto detto "Il Conte Orlando" ( Simone Molinaro , 1599)
  2. Gagliarda ( Vincenzo Galilei , around 1550)
  3. Villanella (anonymous lute book, late 16th century: No. 50)
  4. Passo mezzo e mascherada (anonymous lute book, end of the 16th century: nos. 38 and 43)

Orchestra instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet, harp, harpsichord, strings

The premiere in December 1917 by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was conducted by Bernardino Molinari at the Teatro Augusteo in Rome .

2. Suite (1923)

  1. "Laura soave", balletto con gagliarda, saltarello e canario ( Fabritio Caroso , 1581)
  2. Danza rustica ( Jean-Baptiste Besard , 1617)
  3. Campanae parisienses & aria ( attributed to Marin Mersenne , 17th century)
  4. Bergamasca ( Bernardo Gianoncelli called Bernardello, 1650)

Orchestra: 3 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, English horn, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, harp, celesta, harpsichord four hands, strings

The second suite was premiered on March 7, 1924 by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Fritz Reiner in the Music Hall of Cincinnati .

3rd suite (1931)

  1. Italiana (anonymous lute book, end of the 16th century: No. 60–61)
  2. Arie di corte ( Jean-Baptiste Besard , 17th century)
  3. Siciliana (anonymous lute book, late 16th century: No. 64)
  4. Passacaglia ( Ludovico Roncalli , from the 9th suite in: Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola , Bergamo 1692)

Orchestra instrumentation: string orchestra, also possible for string quartet

The third suite was premiered in January 1932 under the direction of the composer at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan .

Elsa Respighi created a ballet version of the 3rd suite in 1937.

literature

  • Matthias Henke : Ottorino Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie. In: Ars. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, IV (1986), pp. 36–40
  • Burkhard Rempe: Antiche Danze e Arie. In: Wulf Konold (Ed.): Lexicon Orchestermusik Romantik I – R. Schott / Piper, Mainz / Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8227-9 , pp. 655-661.
  • Ottorino Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie: 3 suites per orchestra (score). Ricordi, 1952 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Da un Codice Lute Book del Cinquecento . Trascrizioni in notazione moderna di Oscar Chilesotti. Leipzig 1890.
  2. ↑ Mascherada: Carnival dance of faster pace and dotted rhythm. Cf. Konrad Ragossnig : Manual of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 111.
  3. ↑ a b c d Ottorino Respighi at Ricordi music publisher, accessed on June 1, 2016
  4. ^ Ludovico Roncalli: Nine Suites . Edited by Bruno Henze. Leipzig 1953.