Ivrea

Luca Bruno/Associated Press People wearing protective helmets and costumes threw oranges as part of Carnival celebrations in the northern Italian Piedmont town of Ivrea, Monday.

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The Olivetti Historical Archives, housed in a villa overlooking the original Olivetti factory in Ivrea, contains an abundant inventory of postwar sofas, lamps, kettles, scooters, cutlery, and coffeemakers — some forgotten and many revered.

Italian Style on Display 2009

Included in the Ivrea manuscript, where it appears in the company of several pieces that were used in the Papal chapel in Avignon, it is also mentioned in the index of the Trémoïlle manuscript that has since unfortunately disappeared.

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Recent research suggests that the Ivrea manuscript was copied late in the 14th century, in the 1380s and 90s, but that it preserves music written considerably earlier, not later than the 1360s.

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Clap, clap/sus Robins is a delightful anomaly, an old fashioned ars antique style motet, out of place in its much progressive surrounding though still entertaining enough to be copied into the Ivrea manuscript.

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The Ivrea Codex now lives in the Chapter library of the cathedral of Ivrea, a small town in the foothills of the Italian Alps, south of the modern ski resort Aosta home to an important 15th-century music manuscript.

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The presence of the Credo in the manuscripts of Apt, Ivrea, Madrid and Las Huelgas and of the Ite missa est in the Ivrea manuscript is proof of the circulation of musical currents between North and South and also establishes clear links with the Papal court in Avignon.

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His two French-texted motets in Ivrea, Qui es promesse/Hal Fortune and Amours/Faus Samblant well represent opposing styles found among his motets, Amours/Faus Samblant belongs squarely within the musical world of the early ars nova and was clearly influenced by the motets of Philippe de Vitry; but Ha!

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Most of his 23 motets come from the first part of his composing life roughly 1320-50 and are typically varied and idiosyncratic specimens of the kinds of ars nova motets of which more ‘normal’ examples survive in Ivrea.

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Banzi was a teacher at a high tech design school in Ivrea, Italy, and his students often complained they couldn't find an inexpensive, powerful microcontroller to drive their arty robotic projects.

Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work? 2008