Music of the Polish Renaissance by Jozef M. Chominski, Zofia Lissa / A selection of works from the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century / Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne 1955 / Hardcover / Translated by Claire Grece Dabrowska

Hardcover 1955

PAGES: 304

PUBLISHER: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne

LANGUAGE: English

English Description:

The origin of Polish music can be traced as far back as the 13th century, from which manuscripts have been found in Stary Sącz, containing polyphonic compositions related to the Parisian Notre Dame School. Other early compositions, such as the melody of Bogurodzica, may also date back to this period. The first known notable composer, Mikołaj z Radomia, lived in the 15th century.

During the 16th century, mostly two musical ensembles – both based in Kraków and belonging to the King and the Archbishop of Wawel – led the rapid innovation of Polish music. Composers writing during this period include Wacław z Szamotuł, Mikołaj Zieleński, Nicolaus Cracoviensis, Marcin Leopolita and Mikołaj Gomółka, who composed "Melodies to Polish Psalter". Diomedes Cato, a native-born Italian who lived in Kraków from about the age of five, became one of the most famous lutenists at the court of Sigismund III, and not only imported some of the musical styles from southern Europe, but blended them with native folk music.

Music of the Polish Renaissance.--Instrumental music.--Vocal music.--Translations of the Polish songs. Preambulum in G minor ; Preambulum in D minor ; Accede nuntia ; Colenda ; Martin again ; Poznania ; Dance ; Arrangement of Sandrin's song Douce memoire ; A good Polish dance ; A Polish dance ; Polish dance[s] ; Volta Polonica ; A dance from Poland ; Cantio Polonica ; Dance Wyrwany (Snatching dance) ; Rex (A court dance) ; Eight Polish dances ; My sweet eyes ; A song of the captivity and sad constraint of the land of Hungary ; A new song of the victory at Byczyna ; Duma ; Rebels' song ; Fear born of the evils of human life ; Epithalamion newly written for the wedding of Jan Kostka, gentleman of Sztymbark ; A dirge-Epitaph on the tomb of the virtuous queen Barbara Radziwiłł ; A dirge-Lament of Jerome Szafraniec, Starotsa of Ch̨eciny ; Dramatic song from Marcin Łaski's dialogue Of the tree of life / Anon. --
Preambulum in F major ; Ave Jerarchia ; Introitus de resurrectione Domini ; Protexisti me Deus ; Heyduck dance ; Dance ; A peasant dance ; I pricked myself with a thorn ; The cobbler goes along the street carrying his awls ; Yet Venus is above me / Mikołaj of Cracow --
Villanella[s] / Wojciech Długoraj --
Galliard[s] ; Coranto[s] ; Prelude[s] ; Fantasia nova ; Branle de S. Nicolas / Jakub Polak --
Chorea Polonica ; Galliard[s] ; Favorito / Diomedes Cato --
Nova casa ; Tamburetta a 3 / Adam Jarz̨ebski--
Daylight declines ; Christ, the day of our lightness ; In te Domine speravi / Wacław of Szamotuły --
A new song of thanksgiving / Cyprian Bazylik --
Kyrie from the Missa Paschalis ; Benedictus from the Missa Paschalis / Marcin Leopolita --
Kyrie from the mass In melodiam moteti Pisneme / Tomasz Szadek --
My heart bids me sing (Psalm XLV) ; Let us clap our hands (Psalm XLVII) ; My mind, my heart ready (Psalm CVIII) ; Sitting by the low banks of the waters of Babylon (Psalm CXXXVII) / Mikołaj Gomołka --
Magnificat ; Laetentur coeli / Mikołaj Zielenski --