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Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340–1360) was an Italian composer of the trecento, the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova. He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni da Firenze. He is mostly known for his madrigals but also composed several cacce and caccia/madrigal hybrids.
His setting of Non al suo amante, written about 1350, is the only known contemporary setting of Petrarch's poetry.
Jacopo's style was known for sweet, clean melodies; fully texted voice parts that never crossed; and noncanonical writing. Noteworthly are the untexted passages...
Luc Ferrari (February 5, 1929 – August 22, 2005) was a French composer, particularly noted for his tape music.
Ferrari was born in Paris and studied the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and composition under Arthur Honegger. His first works were freely atonal.
In 1954, Ferrari went to the United States to meet Edgard Varèse, whose Déserts he had heard on the radio, and had impressed him. This seems to have had a great effect on him, with the tape part in Déserts serving as inspiration for Ferrari to use magnetic tape in his own music....
Jacopo Gianninoto is a guitarist, lutenist and composer from Italy.
He started playing Guitar when he was 5 years old, since then he never stopped and he completed his studies at the Conservatory “A. Pedrollo” in Vicenza, one of the best school for plucked string instruments in Europe, under the guidance of Maestro Paolo Muggia specializing in early music and the 10 strings guitar.
Following his passion for early repertoire, in 1998 he started his research on original ancient plucked strings instruments with lute, theorbo and baroque guitar, under the guidance of Maestro Terrell Stone, who had a great influence...
