Musica Transalpina

Musica Transalpina is a collection of madrigals published in England in 1588. The madrigals had crossed the Alps (hence the name) in the sense that the madrigal form was borrowed from the Italians, and the pieces were mainly by Italians (although the lyrics were rendered into English). It is significant for marking the beginning of the golden age of the madrigal in England.

Musica transalpina contains 57 separate pieces by 18 composers, with Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder having the most, and Luca Marenzio second most. Ferrabosco had lived in England in the 1560s and 1570s, which could explain the large number of his compositions in the book; he was relatively unknown in Italy.

Publication history

The collection appeared with a dedication to Gilbert Talbot. It was published by Nicholas Yonge and printed by Thomas East. Several similar anthologies followed immediately after the success of the first. For example, in 1590 East published The First Set of Italian Madrigals; the compositions (which were mainly by Marenzio) were provided with English texts by the poet Thomas Watson. Yonge himself published a second Musica transalpina in 1597, hoping to duplicate the success of the first collection.

Musica è

Musica è (Music Is) is a mini album and the fourth album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, produced by Piero Cassano and released in 1988 on the BMG label. Two versions of the album exist: a five track release and an expanded eight track version, which includes two remixed tracks from Ramazzotti's previous album In certi momenti.

Track listing

(All tracks written by Pierangelo Cassano, Adelio Cogliati, Eros Ramazzotti)

5 track version

8 track version

Chart performance

Musica

Musica (Latin), or La Musica (Italian) or Música (Portuguese and Spanish) may refer to:

Latin for "music"

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Minori (company)

Minori (みのり) is a Japanese visual novel company (previously the software division of CoMixWave until April 2007). Their most successful game is Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two., which has had a manga and two anime television series based on it, and was ported to the PlayStation 2 in April 2010. They use Musica as their main engine. Several of their games' opening movies are animated by Makoto Shinkai. Minori is known for its stance against fan-translations and piracy and has garnered some infamy for its actions against fan translation group No Name Losers and TLWiki, due to the controversy regarding the video game Rapelay by Illusion Soft. As a result, its main webpage is blocked for people outside Japan. In 2010, Minori, MangaGamer, and No Name Losers announced a partnership to make commercial English versions of Minori's games available.

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