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 | | Just when the time seemed more than judicious for Anonymous 4 to look beyond the fertile yet increasingly familiar chant repertoire by which the amazing foursome made its name and changed the face of modern medieval music performance, out comes this abundantly delightful program of 14th-century polyphonic songs. |
 | | The composer, Francesco Landini, was one of the greatest masters of this form, which during this period in Italy coincided with the appearance of Dante's dolce stil nuovo--"sweet new style" of poetry writing. |
 | | Primarily secular, the poetic themes were the usual ones, the three "l's" of love, lust, and longing--for love that was possible, for love that wasn't, and, in the latter case, longing for death rather than suffer the pain of hopeless, eternal separation from the object of one's desire. |
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