Domenico da Piacenza (c. 1400 - c. 1475): "Amoroso" & "Anello" From: "De arte saltandi e choreas ducendii" (c. 1450) Domenico da Piacenza (aka Domenico da Ferrara) was the very first dancing master who is known by name. He was dancing master at the Court of the d'Este at Ferrara from about 1440 to 1475 and wrote a treatise on dancing which is preserved in a manuscript copy from about 1455 -- the date of the original is unknown but must be earlier. These two tunes are from of the musical examples from Domenico's treatise, and are customarily credited to him. My arrangements are based on a setting for four instruments (plus chords for "Anello") from Steve Hendricks' web site (who dates them to c. 1420, which is probably too early): https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendric...an/amoroso.pdf http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Italian/anello.pdf Although they are from the same source, the tunes are quite different in character, and I have used a somewhat different approach in my playing for variety. 1898 Giuseppe Vinaccia mandolin (x2) Vintage Viaten tenor guitar Mid-Missouri M-111 octave mandolin ("Anello" only) Suzuki MC-815 mandocello Amoroso: https://youtu.be/FvfgNfIWdLw Anello: https://youtu.be/J97n71xfHe0 Martin
Nice, Martin! I especially like your recording of Amoroso.
Me too, love Amoroso, it has a medieval but very immediate, urgent feel. Well done.
Thanks, Frithjof and Simon. Yes, Amoroso is also my favourite. It's unique (I think) among the scores on Steve Hendricks' great site in that this arrangement isn't by Steve but rather credited to the Philadelphia Renaissance Wind Band (now called Piffaro), one of the leading early music ensembles. A while ago I looked up the original book by Domenico da Piacenza, and his original published score is very sparse indeed, so I think quite a lot was added by the arrangers. Martin
Like Frithjof and Simon, I really enjoyed the first piece. It sounds like something from the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
