Salomone Rossi

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Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630) was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque. His first published work (released in 1589) was a collection of 19 canzonettes, short, dance-like compositions for a trio of voices with lighthearted, amorous lyrics. Rossi also flourished in his composition of more serious madrigals, combining the poetry of the greatest poets of the day (e.g. Guarini, Marino, Rinaldi, and Celiano) with his melodies. In the field of instrumental music Rossi was a bold innovator. He was one of the first composers to apply to instrumental music the principles of monodic song, in which one melody dominates over secondary accompanying parts. His trio sonatas, among the first in the literature, provided for the development of an idiomatic and virtuoso violin technique. They stand mid-way between the homogeneous textures of the instrumental canzona of the late Renaissance and the trio sonata of the mature Baroque. In 1600, in the first two of his five madrigal books, Rossi published the earliest continuo madrigals, an innovation which partially defined the beginning of the Baroque era in music; these particular compositions included tablature for chitarrone. Rossi also published a collection of Jewish liturgical music (Ha-shirim asher l'Shlomo, The Songs of Solomon) in 1623. This was written in the Baroque tradition and (almost) entirely unconnected to traditio

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Early Italian Baroque Ensemble Music

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Sances: Dialoghi amorosi

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Rossi: Il mantovano hebreo

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Songs of Solomon

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The Collected Recordings Of Il Giardino Armonico

Rossi, S.: Songs of Solomon (The)

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Venezia Millenaria

Rossi: The Songs of Solomon

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Metamorfosi - Baroque Impressions

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Ostinato

The Songs of Solomon

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Rossi: The Song of Solomon and Instrumental Music

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