Other names: Donato da Cascia (Grove), Donatus de Florentia (Pirrotta, MGG), Magister Dominus Donatus de Florentia, Don [Dominus], Donatus (Apel)

Donato's various titles and dress depicted in Sq indicate that he was a Benedictine or Camaldolensian. He is mentioned in Sacchetti as `presbiter de Cascia (near Florence).

Works (19)

Literature

Donato da Firenze

LIFE

  1. CASIMIRI, Rafaello. 'Giovanni da Cascia e Donato da Cascia musicisti umbria?', Note d'archivio per la storia musicale, XI (1934): 207-210.
  2. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Donato da Cascia', The New Grove, V (1980): 545 .

EDITIONS

  1. WOLF, Johannes. 'Florenz in der Musikgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts', Sammelbände der internationale Musikgesellschaft, III (1901): 599-646.
  2. Die Musikstücke des Prager Codex XI E 9, edited by Friedrich Kammerer, Augsburg: 1931 .
  3. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. Fourteenth-Century Italian Cacce, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942 .
  4. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955.
  5. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I.
  6. GOZZI, Marco. Il Manoscritto Londra, British Library, Additional 29987 2 vols, dissertation, Cremona, Scuola di paleografia e filologia musicale, University of Pavia: 1984-1985.

STUDIES OF WORKS

  1. WOLF, Johannes. 'Florenz in der Musikgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts', Sammelbände der internationale Musikgesellschaft, III (1901): 599-646, p. 612.
  2. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940 , p. 16, ex. 17( Come da lupo pecorella presa).
  3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966): 73-92, p. 79( Un bel girfalco sces' alle mie grida).
  4. FELLIN, Eugene C. A Study of Superius Variants in the Sources of Italian Trecento Music: Madrigals and Cacce, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1970, passim( Faccia chi de', s'el pò, ché passa l'ora).
  5. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224, passim( Faccia chi de', s'el pò, ché passa l'ora).
  6. BAUMANN, Dorothea. Die dreistimmige italienische Lied-Satztechnik im Trecento, Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1979. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlung no. 64 , passim( Faccia chi de', s'el pò, ché passa l'ora).
  7. BENT, Margaret. 'Notation. III/3. Polyphonic mensural notation, c1260-1500', The New Grove, XIII (1980): 362-370( Un bel girfalco sces' alle mie grida).
  8. GALLO, F. Alberto. 'The musical and literary tradition of 14th century poetry set to music', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter: 1984, pp. 55-76( Come da lupo pecorella presa).
  9. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992( Un cane, un' ocha e una vechia paçça).

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. WOLF, Johannes. 'Florenz in der Musikgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts', Sammelbände der internationale Musikgesellschaft, III (1901): 599-646, p. 612.
  2. MORINI, Adolfo. 'Un celebre musico dimenticato, Giovanni da Cascia', Bolletino della regia deputazione di storia di patria per l'Umbria, XXVII (Perugia, 1926): 305-306.
  3. CASIMIRI, Rafaello. 'Giovanni da Cascia e Donato da Cascia musicisti umbria?', Note d'archivio per la storia musicale, XI (1934): 207-210.
  4. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. Fourteenth-Century Italian Cacce, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942 .
  5. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1962. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/III.
  6. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966): 73-92, p. 79.
  7. FELLIN, Eugene C. A Study of Superius Variants in the Sources of Italian Trecento Music: Madrigals and Cacce, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1970, passim.
  8. Italian Secular Music by Vincenzo da Rimini, Rosso de Chollegrana, Donato da Firenze, Gherardello da Firenze, Lorenzo da Firenze, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1971. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VII.
  9. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224, passim.
  10. BAUMANN, Dorothea. Die dreistimmige italienische Lied-Satztechnik im Trecento, Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1979. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlung no. 64 , passim.
  11. BENT, Margaret. 'Notation. III/3. Polyphonic mensural notation, c1260-1500', The New Grove, XIII (1980): 362-370.
  12. GALLO, F. Alberto. 'The musical and literary tradition of 14th century poetry set to music', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter: 1984, pp. 55-76.
  13. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.

Recordings

Recordings of works by Donato da Firenze

  1. Songs and Dances of 14th Century Italy: University of East Anglia UEA 78001 (GB): - Senti tu d'amor, donna? - No.- Perché?; .
  2. The Art of the Viele a Archet: Arion ARN 36.358 (FRA): - Senti tu d'amor, donna? - No.- Perché?; .
  3. Florentine Music (Ars Nova and Renaissance): Decca DL 9428, 79428: I' fu' ggià usignolo in tenpo verte; .
  4. Early Music in Italy, France and Burgundy: Telefunken 6.41068 AS (SAWT 9466) (1965): Come da lupo pecorella presa; .
  5. The Ars Nova: Vocal Music of 14-Century France and Italy: Expèriences Anonymes EA/EAS 83 (1966): L'aspido sordo e 'l tirello scorçone; .
  6. Musica in Bohemia in Tempore Caroli IV: Supraphon 11112 2451/2 (1977): Je port amiablement; .
  7. Bestiarium: Nuova Era 6970 (1991): I' fu' ggià bianc' uccel con piuma d'oro; L'aspido sordo e 'l tirello scorçone; Lucida pecorella son canpata; .