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"Silk Road Journeys"

Filippo Azzaiolo, “Chi passa per ’sta strada”
Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble, Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet

© 2001 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. SK 89782

Filippo Azzaiolo (fl 1557-69) is an Italian Renaissance composer whose anonymously published collections of villotas, a kind of dance song, are important for preserving popular sixteenth-century melodies and texts.

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