Music of Old Adriatic is a vinyl album by Ensemble Renaissance, released in 1984 on the PGP RTB label.
The A side of the record deals with the composers who were born on the territory of modern Dalmatia, in the parts which were Venetian at the time, such as Andrea Antico, Franciscus Bossinensis and Giacomo Gorzanis .
[1] Interest in music began to spread outside of monastic and church walls with growing influence of new spiritual tendencies from Central European and particularly Italian cities.
New tendencies of early Baroque monody soon found their way into the domestic musical tradition, both sacral and secular.
Tomaso Cecchini, from Verona, who spent his entire working life (1603–44) as a choirmaster, organist and composer in Split and Hvar, published his madrigals Armonici concetti, libro primo (1612) as the oldest Baroque collection written for the Croatian milieu.