Bernardo Storace ( fl. 1664) was an Italian composer . Almost nothing is known about his life; his only surviving collection of music contains numerous variation sets and represents a transitory stage between the time of Girolamo Frescobaldi and that of Bernardo Pasquini .
12-711: Storace is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernardo Storace ( fl. 1664), Italian composer Francesco Storace (born 1959), Italian politician Guillermo Storace (born 1974), a forward of the Uruguay national rugby union team Marc Storace (born 1951), Maltese rock vocalist (lives in Switzerland) Nancy Storace (1765–1817), operatic singer Patricia Storace , American poet and essayist Stephen Storace (1762–1796), English composer [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
24-446: A total of 72 variations). The single chaconne included in the collection also comprises variations on a four-bar pattern. The rest of the variation sets tend to feature longer patterns, up to 24 bars in Aria sopra la Spagnoletta . The theme of the latter piece is, curiously, not related to Frescobaldi 's Spagnoletta ; it is only found in a 16th-century Florentine manuscript. Storace uses
36-498: A transposed version of it and produces six variations with very brief connecting passages between them. A similar situation is observed in Partita sopra il Cinque passi : there are fifteen variations on a six-bar theme, connected by brief transitions, and the theme is again not related to the more well-known Cinquepassi of The Mulliner Book , or to cinquepassi as explained by Michael Praetorius in his writings. Storace's Follia uses
48-519: Is believed to have previously resided in London, where John Heywood inscribed the title page of the manuscript Sum liber thomas mullineri / iohanne heywoode teste. ('I am Thomas Mulliner's book, with John Heywood as witness.'). A later annotation on the same page states that: T. Mulliner was Master of St Pauls school , but this has so far proved unsupportable. The provenance of the MS is unknown before it appears in
60-426: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bernardo Storace Very little is known about his life, except that in 1664 he served as Vice- Maestro di cappella to the senate of Messina . This fact is mentioned on the title page of Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo , the single surviving collection of Storace's music, which is also the only source of information on
72-500: Is followed by terza parte and quarta parte . Selva di varie compositioni contains the following works (listed here in the original order): The Mulliner Book The Mulliner Book ( British Library Add MS 30513 ) is a historically important musical commonplace book compiled probably between about 1545 and 1570, by Thomas Mulliner, about whom practically nothing is known, except that he figures in 1563 as modulator organorum (organist) of Corpus Christi College, Oxford . He
84-447: Is the variation form . Particularly notable are the four passacaglias , which contain, in total, 320 representations of the descending tetrachord . Two of these works are split into several sections connected by modulatory passages: Passagagli sopra D sol re per # contains four sections (D major, A major, E major, and B minor; a total of 91 variations) and Passagagli sopra Fe fa ut per b three (F minor, B-flat minor and E-flat major;
96-411: The surname Storace . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Storace&oldid=1097865138 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
108-501: The composer. Messina was twice devastated by earthquakes , in 1783 and in 1908 , so archival research is impossible. Given that Selva di varie compositioni was published in Venice and the music is stylistically somewhat more related to that of northern Italian composers, it is possible that Storace was originally from the north of Italy. Storace's main interest in Selva di varie compositioni
120-519: The library of John Stafford Smith in 1776. After passing through the hands of Edward Francis Rimbault the MS was given to the British Museum in 1877 by William Hayman Cummings . Of the 121 keyboard pieces over half are based on Catholic liturgical chants, and most of the rest are transcriptions of part songs and anthems , some twenty or so of which are secular. There are only two dance pieces and no variations . There are also nine pieces for
132-581: The other hand, are masterful works–the first (titled simply Ricercar ) is in fact a triple fugue , the first theme of which is Frescobaldi's, from the famous Ricercare con l'obbligo di cantare la quinta parte senza tocarla from Fiori musicali . The last piece of Selva di varie compositioni is also its most intriguing: Storace's Pastorale is a very long work consisting of numerous repeated figures, variations, etc., all over an incessant pedal note . There are five sections arranged symmetrically: prima parte and seconde parte are followed by an aria , which
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#1733094437290144-535: The same theme as Frescobaldi's Follia , but neither is related to the famous La Folía . Finally, Storace's variations on the Passo e mezzo include one on the moderno variant of the theme and two on the antico ; all three sets are examples of mixed variations, for they include sections marked gagliarda or corrente , i.e., dances. Storace's two toccatas are rather brief pieces, less complex harmonically than their Italian predecessors. The two ricercars , on
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