Coach: Malachai Bandy
Location: Zoom
Description: In the shadow of his father's abundant success as foremost importer and composer of Italian music for the English court, Alfonso Ferrabosco II found himself pressed for inventive ways to live up to his family name while making ends meet. Written amid a tumultuous life littered with ill-advised "get rich quick" schemes, Ferrabosco's music reveals him to be one of the cleverest composers--arguably the most compositionally economical--of the Jacobean era. This class offers a musical tour of fantasias and dances by Ferrabosco II, written fresh in the wake of the English Transalpina craze and boasting ties to Italian music at the source.
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