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	AllRefer.com - Costanzo Festa (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Costanzo Festa, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Costanzo Festa[kOstAn´tsO fes´tA] Pronunciation Key, c.1490–1545, Italian composer.
		An early madrigalist, Festa combined Flemish and Italian influences in his works and in turn influenced Palestrina.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Festa-Co.html (177 words)

	HOASM: Costanzo Festa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Festa's surviving output includes four Masses, more than forty motets, thirty hymns, thirteen Magnificats, litanies for double choir, and a large quantity of madrigals.
		Where he wrote for five voices, his style sometimes harked back to the chansons of Josquin; some such madrigals are written for very low voice ranges, suggesting solo performance with instrumental support.
		Festa contributed two ceremonial madrigals to the Duke of Florence's wedding entertainment in 1539.
	www.hoasm.org /IVD/FestaC.html (219 words)

	Costanzo Festa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Festa was one of the few Italians in the Papal Choir.
		He was a master of the Netherlands contrapuntal technique, however, and his importance to music history is as the one who first brought the two musical styles, the Italian and the Netherlandish, together.
		Most of Festa's madrigals are for three voices (in contrast to the other early madrigalist, Verdelot, who preferred five or six).
	costanzo-festa.peernet.sk (340 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Costanzo
		Festa, Costanzo FESTA, COSTANZO [Festa, Costanzo], c.1490-1545, Italian composer.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Costanzo (289 words)

	Constantius [Costanzo] Festa
		LOWINSKY, who posited that Festa was in France in 1518, was unwilling to accept the 1 November 1517 date given in FREY and supported by CRAWFORD.
		Festa’s compositional career need not be discussed here (see TNG and MAIN and SEAY for an edition of his works).
		Eadem die Constantius Festa musicus eccellentissimus et cantor egregius vita functus est, et sepultus in Ecclesia Traspontina, cuius funeri R. Episcopus Assisii magister capellae cum cantoribus omnibus interfuit et sacrista.
	sophia.smith.edu /~rsherr/festa.htm (496 words)

	Costanzo Festa, Collection of Polyphonic Hymns and Magnificats, ca. 1538 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Costanzo Festa, Collection of Polyphonic Hymns and Magnificats, ca.
		This work of Costanzo Festa is the earliest collection of polyphonic hymns and Magnificats by a single composer in the Sistine fondo.
		The opening of his hymn "Conditor alme siderum" is shown here, with the arms of the reigning pope Paul III on the elaborately decorated "Q" in the upper left.
	www.hoasm.org /IVD/FestaCollection.html (94 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While this first recording of 32 of Costanzo Festa's 125 variations on the popular cantus firmus melody La Spagna is expertly performed and sounds terrific, this definitely is a disc that will appeal primarily to specialists and other devotees of 16th-century instrumental music.
		Listeners who appreciate such things will be fascinated with Festa's imaginative and highly skilled treatment of the 37-note "theme", which he preserves intact throughout each of his contrapunti, which employ varying numbers of parts, from three to 11.
		And while comparisons of Festa's work with Bach's Musical Offering or Goldberg Variations may be something of a stretch on almost any level, there's no doubt as to the impressive fertility of ideas and facility of execution evidenced in this well-chosen and skillfully ordered program.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7233 (402 words)

	Recent Researches: R 107, R107 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During his lifetime, Festa referred to contrapuntal studies that he had written on a cantus firmus.
		While the collection was mentioned by subsequent theorists, for centuries it was presumed lost.
		C36), reviews the evidence on Festa's authorship, speculates on the possible chronology of the works and the origin of the manuscript, and reassesses the biography of Festa, the first major Italian composer of the Renaissance.
	www.areditions.com /rr/rrr/r107.html (125 words)

	Richard J Agee Costanzo Festa (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Richard J Agee Costanzo Festa (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)
		" Costanzo Festa: Counterpoints on a Cantus Firmus [Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, Vol 107] "Richard J Agee Costanzo Festa
		Costanzo Festa: Counterpoints on a Cantus Firmus [Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, Vol 107]
	www.freebookessay.com.cob-web.org:8888 /197126_richard-j-agee-costanzo-festa.html (161 words)

	Classical Discoveries Playlist-07/16/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Costanzo Festa - "E' morta la speranza" - Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel, director - Sony Classical - SK 53 116
		Costanzo Porta - "Magnificat" - Ensembles, "Les Nations" and "Speculum Musicae" - Tactus - TC 524101
		Magnar Åm - "Gratia" for Harp and Strings - Willy Postma, Harp - Kristiansand Chamber Orchestra, Jam Stigmer, Conductor - Intim Musik - IMCD 065
	ourworld.cs.com /clasdis/playlist20030716.html (473 words)

	Festa: Magnificat / Mass Parts / Motets / Madrigals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Festa: Magnificat / Mass Parts / Motets / Madrigals
		Costanzo Festa (c.1490-1545) was the first internationally known native Italian composer of the Renaissance.
		A performance in similar style devoted to a later composer:
	www.medieval.org /emfaq/cds/sny53116.htm (215 words)

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