Rossino Mantovano ( la, Rossinus Mantuanus "Rossino of Mantua") (

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1505–1511) was an Italian singer and composer.

Life and career

Mantovano is known as a composer of frottole; five of which were published by

Ottaviano Petrucci Ottaviano Petrucci (born in Fossombrone on 18 June 1466 – died on 7 May 1539 in Venice) was an Italian printer. His ''Harmonice Musices Odhecaton'', a collection of chansons printed in 1501, is commonly misidentified as the first book of sheet mu ...

between 1505-1507. These frottole included three barzellete, an oda, and a popular text. He was employed as a male contralto at the

Mantua Cathedral Mantua Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale di San Pietro apostolo; Duomo di Mantova) in Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy, is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter. It is the seat of the Bishop of Mantua. History An initial structure probabl ...

in 1509, and after served as the maestro di canto at that cathedral in 1510-1511. There he was responsible for training the

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s. Aside from the Petrucci publications and his record of employment at the Mantua Cathedral, there is no other known information about Mantovano. Two of Mantovano's works have maintained interest among scholars for their connections to Mantuan theatre: ''Poi che fai, donna, el gaton'' and ''Lirum bililirum''. ''Poi che fai, donna, el gaton'' contains material that imitates the sounds of a cat’s yowl. ''Lirum bililirum'', Mantovano's most well known and most often performed work, uses text written with a

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and is a

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of a

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crooned from below a woman’s window. This latter work uses

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s for its accompaniment rather than the traditional lute for similar works of the era. It was recorded by the

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for their 1984 Madrigal History Tour album.

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