Other names: Andreas de Florentia (Grove, MGG), Andrea di Giovanni, Frate Andrea de' Servi, Andreas Servorum (PMFC XX), Andrea degli Organi, Magister Frater Andreas Organista de Florentia (Pirrotta, Sq)

Andrea entered the Order of the Servi di Maria in 1375, and held important positions as prior in Florence and Pistoia. He was known as an organist. He was closely associated with Landini and was the teacher of B. Corsini.

Works (31)

Literature

Andrea da Firenze

LIFE

  1. GIANI, A. Annales sacri Ordinis fratrum Servorum, Vol. I, Lucca: 1719.
  2. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Andreas de Florentia', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, XV (1973): 208 .

EDITIONS

  1. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955.
  2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1971. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/II.
  3. Troisième livre d'ensemble pour flûtes à bec, edited by Michel Sanvoisin, Paris: Heugel, 1973.
  4. GARFORTH, Constance C. The Lo Manuscript: A Trecento Collection, Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University: 1983 .

STUDIES OF WORKS

  1. TAUCCI, Raffaello. 'Fra Andrea dei Servi, organista e compositore del Trecento', Rivista di studi storia sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria, II (1935): 73-103.
  2. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Per l'origine e la storia della "caccia" e del "madrigale" trecentesco', Rivista musicale italiana, XLVIII (1946): 305-323 (p. 314)( Astio non morï).
  3. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The Middle Ages', [in] A History of Song, edited by Denis Stevens, 2nd edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1970, pp. 15-64, p. 59( Dal traditor non si può l'uom guardare).
  4. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978 , pp. 464-465( Cosa crudel m'ancide).
  5. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I , p. 43( Cosa crudel m'ancide).
  6. LINDLEY, Mark. 'Pythagorean intonation and the rise of the triad', RMA Research Chronicle, 16 (1980): 4-61 (p. 52)( Donna, bench'i' mi parta dal bel viso).
  7. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Guillaume de Machaut, fondateur d'école?', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 329-335, p. 331( Dame sans per, en qui est ma speranche) .
  8. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154( Cosa crudel m'ancide).

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. GIANI, A. Annales sacri Ordinis fratrum Servorum, Vol. I, Lucca: 1719.
  2. TAUCCI, Raffaello. 'Fra Andrea dei Servi, organista e compositore del Trecento', Rivista di studi storia sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria, II (1935): 73-103.
  3. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940 , p. 35.
  4. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. Fourteenth-Century Italian Cacce, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942 .
  5. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Per l'origine e la storia della "caccia" e del "madrigale" trecentesco', Rivista musicale italiana, XLVIII (1946): 305-323 (p. 314).
  6. PIRROTTA, Nino and Ettore LI GOTTI. 'Paolo Tenorista, fiorentino "extra moenia"', Estudios Dedicados a Menéndez Pidal III, Madrid: S. Aguirre, 1952, pp. 577-606.
  7. FISCHER, Kurt von. Studien zur italienischen Musik des Trecento und frühen Quattrocento, Bern: Haupt, 1956. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft, Ser. II, Vol. 5.
  8. SCHNEIDER, Marius. 'Klagelieder des Volkes in der Kunstmusik der italienischen Ars Nova', Acta Musicologica, XXXIII (1961): 162-168.
  9. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966): 73-92.
  10. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Das Manuskript Modena, Biblioteca estense, a M.5,24 (olim lat. 568 = Mod)', Musica Disciplina, XXIV (1970): 17-67.
  11. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Andreas de Florentia', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, XV (1973): 208 .
  12. Italian Secular Music, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1977. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century X.
  13. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978 , pp. 464-465.
  14. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I , p. 43.
  15. LINDLEY, Mark. 'Pythagorean intonation and the rise of the triad', RMA Research Chronicle, 16 (1980): 4-61 (p. 52).
  16. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Guillaume de Machaut, fondateur d'école?', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 329-335, p. 331.
  17. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.

Recordings

Recordings of works by Andrea da Firenze

  1. Italian Secular Music of the Trecento: Chant du Monde LDX 78.665 (FRA): Presunzion da ignoranza procede; Sotto candido vel dolce risguardo; .
  2. Florentine Music (Ars Nova and Renaissance): Decca DL 9428, 79428: Non più doglia ebbe Dido; .
  3. Musik aus dem Trecento: Fono. Ges. Luzern S 30-4703: Morrà la 'nvidia, ardendo; .
  4. The Ars Nova: Vocal Music of 14-Century France and Italy: Expèriences Anonymes EA/EAS 83 (1966): Sotto candido vel dolce risguardo; .
  5. Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. An Illustrated Guide: Vanguard VSD 71219/20 (2) (1977): Cosa crudel m'ancide; .
  6. A Song for Francesca. Music in Italy, 1330-1430: Hyperion CDA 66286 (1987): Astio non morï mai; Per la vera onestà, che teco regna; .