Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

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Name = Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi


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Died = c. 1622
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Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1550 - 1622?), was an Italian composer of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods. He is known for his 1591 publication of "balletti" for five voices.

Career

Gastoldi was born at Caravaggio, Lombardy. In 1582 he succeeded Giaches de Wert as choirmaster at Santa Barbara’s, and served until 1605 under the Dukes Guglielmo and Vincenzo Gonzaga. According to Filippo Lomazzo, Gastoldi became choirmaster at the Duomo, Milan, afterwards, but other considerations seem to make this point doubtful.

Works

Gastoldi composed several madrigals, a variety of sacred vocal music, and a few instrumental works. His two sets of balletti, a strophic vocal dance, however, are the most prominent and influential. These were written for five voices, and contained passages of nonsense syllables (eg. "fa la la") which seemed to personify a type of lover and love-making. As a whole, Gastoldi’s balletti were a musical "commedia del'arte", and included the following compositions: "Contento" (The Lucky One), "Premiato" (The Winner), "L'Inamorato" (The Suitor), "Piacere" (Pleasure), "La Bellezza" (Beauty), "Gloria d'Amore" (Praise of Love), "L'Acceso" (The Ardent), "Caccia d'Amore" (Love-Chase), "Il Martellato" (The Disdained), "Il Bell’humore" (The Good Fellow), "Amor Vittorioso" (Love Victorious), and "Speme Amorosa" (Amorous Hope). His Balleti music basically had a simple chordal texture, fast declamation and rhythmic accents at the expense of contrapuntal display, as is to be expected from their close relationship to dance music.

Gastoldi’s "Balleti a Cinque Voci" was published in Venice in 1591, and immediately became a “best seller.” Within a short time, the collection was reprinted ten times, not only by their original publisher but also in other countries as well. Composers like Vecchi, Banchieri, Hassler, and Morley were greatly captivated by this musical creation (compare Morley's ballett "Now is the Month of Maying" for a clear example of Gastoldi's influence).

It is certain that many "frottole", "villancicos", and "chansons francaises" were intimately related to dance, but it seems true that Gastoldi was the first scholarly author, presumably since the thirteenth century, to compose songs for dancing which were modeled on instrumental patterns, and were perfectly apt for instrumental performance alone.

The title page of the balletti bestows the title “Maestro di Cappella del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Mantova” to Gastoldi. However, this has no slightest intention of masking sophistication behind the spontaneous naivete of Gastoldi's works, because the entire content is a collection of simplicty, healthy playfulness, communicative carefreeness, and gaiety. The common trait is, of course, the Fa-la refrain, (which incidentally became “lirum-lirum “in Gloria d’amore) with skipping rhythms, clear lines, and frank tonality. Gastoldi sought to vary his compositions from ballet to ballet by sometimes writing in triple time, in double or by the alternate use of major and minor. Otherwise, it cannot be said that he at all attempted a psychological differentiation between the several “characters” depicted.

External links

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* [http://www.hoasm.org/IVD/Gastoldi.html "Here of a Sunday Morning" short biography]
* [http://www.bicinium.info/pagine/source/source_gastoldi.php Didactic two-part compositions of the Renaissance and the Baroque] About the duo anthology published in Milan, 1598, which contains several duos by Gastoldi


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