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3 unusual facts about Music of Italy


Firminus Caron

Most of Caron's music survives in Italian manuscripts, leading to the hypothesis that he may have spent some time in Italy, a common destination for composers from northern Europe: however many compositions by French composers made their way to Italian manuscripts without being carried there by their composers, so this is not certain.

Modena Codex

The Modena Codex (Modena, Biblioteca Estense, α.m.5,24) (often referred to with the siglum Mod A) is an early fifteenth-century Italian manuscript of medieval music.

Paola Turci

She participated at the Festival in subsequent years and won the Critics' Prize the next three years: in 1987 (with "First Tango" or "Primo Tango"), in 1988 ("It Will Be Beautiful" or "Sarò bellissima"), in 1989 (with "Children" or "Bambini"), a song that confirmed her place in the Italian music scene and earned first place in the Upcoming Artists section at the 39th Festival di Sanremo.


Karl Proske

Proske was a pioneer in the field, and the fact that his editions reflected only the German, Flemish, and Italian repertoires - excluding Spaniards for the most part, though he did include Victoria - does not diminish his amazing contributions to Sacred music.


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