Quando I Oselli Canta - When the Birds Are Singing:

Anonymous pieces in two parts from the Rossi Codex with Annette Bauer

The Rossi Codex (Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rossi 215) is one of the earliest known sources of Italian polyphonic secular music. The manuscript is dated to about 1370 by Nino Pirrotta, and its poetry points to a Northern Italian origin. The music itself, however, was composed a few decades earlier, between 1325-1350. The Rossi Codex consists of two fragments, with only 18 out of 32 folios surviving today. We will take a look at some of the two-part madrigals with their quintessential trecento style, as well as the beautiful poetry set to music by anonymous composers.

Geared toward the intermediate and up recorder player and all others who are interested in the repertoire. Pitch: A=440.

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