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Speaker: Jessie Ann Owens (I Tatti / University of California, Davis)
The first publication by the Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore (1515/6-1565) was I madrigali a cinque voci, printed in Venice by Girolamo Scotto in 1542. From his very first years in Italy, Cipriano showed an unprecedented command of Italian and of Italian lyric poetry. I madrigali in fact contains a long-form composition, a cycle of madrigals that represents the course of a love affair, in effect an artistic collaboration between the composer and a poet. I madrigali would become one of the most frequently reprinted madrigal books of the sixteenth century, and Cipriano would be recognized as the leading composer in mid-century Italy.
Jessie Ann Owens is professor of music and former dean of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 (1997), the first systematic investigation of compositional process in early music, and numerous articles on Renaissance music and music theory. In 1979-80 she was a fellow at Villa I Tatti. She has served as president of the American Musicological Society and the Renaissance Society of America, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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