In the second circle of Dante’s hell, sinful lovers are tossed about by dark tempests. Not, presumably, to anything as elegantly measured as Anonymous 4’s singing of ballate--two-and three-part ...
Posterity hasn’t been all that kind to Francesco Landini, the Italian composer whose deftly crafted polyphonic harmonies were all the rage in 14th-century Florence.Barely remembered in the modern era, ...
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