Serafino Razzi

Fra Serafino Razzi (Marradi 1531 - Florence 1613), was an Italian Dominican monk who in 1563 published a large collection of carnival songs in the lauda (song) genre.[1] Razzi's collection Libro primo delle laudi spirituale is a miscellany of pieces of varying age and character from the music of Florence.[2] It contains 91 lauda settings for one to four voices. Razzi travelled widely and kept diaries of his journeys.[3]

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  1. Willi Apel- Harvard dictionary of music 1969- Page 464 "In the second half of the 16th century Fra Serafino Razzi inaugurated a vast literature of laude in the popular styles of the villanella and canzonetta [ex. by G. Animuccia in SchGMB, no. 120]. Frequently, folksongs and dance melodies
  2. Anita Garriott. Fra Serafino Razzi and his laude collections of the sixteenth century 1973.
  3. Termoli - Page 418 Felice Costantino "La testimonianza di Serafino Razzi. Il domenicano Serafino Razzi viaggiò, tra il 1576 e il 1577, in Abruzzo e in Capitanata «con cavallo, garzone e compagno»; il 17 febbraio 1577 partì da Vasto per giungere, dopo «XVIII miglia piacevoli ..."


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