Word: arcadelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of madrigals Schmidt used a reduced chorus of two dozen. An interesting comparison was afforded in two settings, a half century apart, of the same text--one, by Vecchi, lyric and smooth; the other, by Arcadelt, more dramatic. The singers displayed excellent precision in Lo Schernito, one of the bright and rapid fa-la-la pieces that Gastoldi made a specialty. There followed an amusing Impromptu, written last year by the talented young composer Kirke Mechem...
Despite Hegel, on Sunday afternoon at Adams House the individual groups were better than the combination. The Radcliffe Freshmen, under Alan Miller, sang with a straightforward style that lacked the slightest affectation. They were at their best in a charming Hymn to Poseidon by Rameau, and Madrigals by Arcadelt, Banchieri, and Morley. A tendency for the first sopranos to get out of tune redeemed itself with sparkling performances of Two Hungarian Songs by Bartok and A Song of Music by Hindemith...
...Benedictus by Palestrina represented what was called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...