Costanzo Festa, textless duo in D (2) – La Spagna
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Costanzo Festa

[textless duo in D (2) – La Spagna]

incipit duo

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Sources

Festa (c. 1530), 2: SecondaSeveral clef changes throughout the duo: it is possible that this exercise was a preparation to playing «alla bastarda»

modern editions

Agee, FestaModern edition of Festa's manuscript collection of counterpoints on La Spagna.

relationships with other music or with obblighi

La Spagna: bassadanza tune.The duo is based on the famous tenor.
For more information, see Bornstein, Italian Duos, vol. II, p. 392.
Suzanne G. Cusick, entry «Spagna», Grove Music Online ed. by L. Macy (accessed 29-03-2006).
Alla bastardaPlaying or singing «alla bastarda» is a technique, in fashion throughout the Renaissance and afterwards, in which the performer must be capable of scanning all the voices of a polyphonic composition, isolating its most significant features: new phrases, imitations, cadences. In doing that, the performer is also supposed to add divisions. Singing «alla bastarda» requires the singer to cover a range of three or more octaves using falsetto. Also instruments must be able to master a wide compass: hence, in the early Renaissance, they could only be either a viol or a trombone; later, violin and bassoon were used as well.

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