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Sigismondo D'India
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Sigismondo d'India (c. 1582 – before April 19, 1629) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the most accomplished contemporaries of Monteverdi, and wrote music in many of the same forms as the more famous composer. Life D'India was probably born in Palermo, Sicily in 1582, though details of his life are lacking until around 1600. During the first decade of the 17th century he probably traveled widely in Italy, meeting composers, acquiring patrons at various aristocratic courts, and absorbing the musical styles at each locale. This was a time of transition in music history, as the polyphonic style of the late Renaissance was giving way to the widely diverse practices of the early Baroque, and d'India seems to have acquired an unusually broad grasp of the total stylistic practice in Italy: the expressive madrigal style of Marenzio, the grand polychoral work of the Venetian School, the conservative polyphonic tradition of the Roman School, the attempts to recover the music of the ancient world in monody and its larger vehicle, the newly developing opera, as well as the mannered, emotionally intense chromatic style of Carlo Gesualdo in Naples. D'India is known to have been in Florence, the birthplace of opera, as well as Mantua, where Monteverdi was working. In Naples he probably met Gesualdo, and by 1610 he was in Parma and Piacenza. The next year, 1611, he was hired by the Duke of Savoy to direct music in Turin, where he remained
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Sigismondo d’India: Lamenti & sospiri
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d'India, Piccinni & Kapsberger: Works
D'India, S.: Madrigals, Book 1 (La Venexiana)
D'India: Il primo libro de madrigali, 1607
Lettere Amorose
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D'India: Madrigali
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I'vo piangendo
Sigismondo D'India: Madrigali, Arie e Balletti
Monteverdi: Combattimento Di Tancredi Et Clorinda (Il) / Madrigals / Millioni: Ballo Del Monteverdi (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble)
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Kirkby, Emma: Musique and Sweet Poetrie - Jewels From Europe Around 1600
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Sigismondo d'India: Il terzo libro de madrigali á 5 voci
Odi Euterpe: Italian Monody From the Early 17th Century