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RICERCAR

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RICERCARRegis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta (Latin: the Theme Given by the King's Command, with Additions, Resolved According to the Canonic Style; Bach; now known as the Musical Offering)


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Io dopo vengo considerando, che l'animo del solitario diviene o languido, e pigro, non havendo chi lo stuzzichi col ricercar la sua dottrina, e col disputare.
Certainly a lesson in the formal rules of composition, its labyrinthine ricercars (a type of baroque composition), canons and fugues were made clearer by Manze's outline explanations ( a sort of musicology-lite.
Performed before and below a video projection that includes Kentridge's charcoal drawings and stock footage, Ulisse features seven singers, seven musicians from Belgium's Ricercar Consort (seated in a semicircle onstage, as if in an anatomy theater), and thirteen wooden puppets designed by Kentridge and operated by his longtime collaborators, the Cape Town-based Handspring Puppet Company.
 
 
 
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