Johannes Ciconia - Italian Ballads (1/3) Una Panthera

Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370 - between June 10 and July 12, 1412) was a late medieval composer and music theorist who worked most of his adult life in Italy, particularly in the service of the Papal Chapels and at the cathedral of Padua.

Una panthera in compania di Marte (1409)
Andrea von Ramm, Mezzosoprano
Willard Cobb, Tenor
Sterling Jones, Fidel

In honour of the city of Lucca Ciconia wrote Una panthera in compania di Marte (the panther and Mars are the coat of arms of the city of Lucca) and for Venice, "splendeur du monde", a song with which to welcome Petro Marcello, the Bishop of Padua. It is difficult to say with certainty when he wrote his famous Italian Balldads. Some, indeed, can be dated by their Italian "Ars Nova" style, and so were presumably composed some time before the last phase of his life; others, on the other hand, show a more recherché style, are as French as they are Italian in structure, and still have some traces of the "Ars Subtillior"

Ars subtilior (more subtle art) is a musical style characterized by rhythmic and notational complexity, centered around Paris, Avignon in southern France, also in northern Spain at the end of the fourteenth century. The style also is found in the French Cypriot repertory. Often the term is used in contrast with ars nova, which applies to the musical style of the preceding period from about 1310 to about 1370; though some scholars prefer to consider the ars subtilior a subcategory of the earlier style. Primary sources for the ars subtilior are the Chantilly Codex and the Modena Codex.

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From the album "Johannes Ciconia "

Studio der frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley, dir.

EMI "Reflexe" 1C 063-30 102 [LP]

EMI "Reflexe" 1C 263-30 102 [Cass.]

EMI "Reflexe" CDM (or 555) 7 63442 2 [CD]