Terzi: Lute Fantasias

Giovanni Antonio Terzi, of whom little is know biographically, composed music collected in two important lute books published in Venice in 1593 and 1599. A large proportion of those books is given to intabulations of vocal music which are of considerable interest to both performer and scholar. However, the fantasias presented in this edition are some of the most accomplished of the generation after Francesco da Milano. They represent a last flowering of the lute fantasia in the imitative style often found with motets and, as a consequence demonstrate a debt to vocal forms and structures. The fantasias, canzona-fantasia, toccatas and prelude of this volume, presented in conventional notation and Italian tablature provide both performers and scholars access to exemplary examples of the late sixteenth-century solo fantasia genre.

1–6. Fantasias 1–6

 

7. i. Toccata [prima] del'autore

7. ii. In te Domine speravi, à 6 voci, di Claudio Merulo da Correggio

8. i. Preludio del'autore

8. ii. Fantasia [prima] del'autore

9. i. Toccata seconda del'autore

9. ii. Fantasia seconda del'autore

10. Fantasia terza del'autore

11. Fantasia [prima] in modo di canzon francese del'autore

12. Fantasia seconda in modo di canzon francese del'autore

13. Fantasia [La Diodatina] in modo di canzon francese del [Giosefo] Guami

14. Un'altra fantasia del detto [Giosefo Guami]

15. Fantasia in modo di canzon francese di Giovanni Gabrieli

16. Un'altra fantasia di Paolo Justi [Giusti]

17. Fantasia come di sopra [canzon francese] di Vicenzo Bellaver

Tim Crawford, Early Music, February 2002; Lynda Sayce, Journal of the Lute Society, 2001