Madrigals. Part 4, Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1606) /

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Author / Creator:Gagliano, Marco da, 1582-1643, composer.
Uniform title:Madrigals, voices (5), book 4
Imprint:Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2021.
©2021
Description:1 score (xix, 92 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Language:Italian
English
Series:Madrigals / Marco da Gagliano ; pt. 4
Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 221
Gagliano, Marco da, 1582-1643. Madrigals (Strainchamps) ; pt.4.
Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; v. 221.
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Format: Music score Print
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12635711
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Varying Form of Title:Quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci
Other uniform titles:Strainchamps, Edmond,
Container of (work): Bati, Luca, 1546-1608. Neve tu mi rassembri il mio bel ghiaccio.
Container of (work): Del Turco, Giovanni, 1577-1647. Fugge dal tuo bel viso.
Container of (work): Del Turco, Lorenzo, 1576-1649. Per far nova rapina.
ISBN:9781987206715
1987206711
Instrumentation:singer 5
vocal ensemble 1
Notes:For five voices (canto, quinto, alto, tenore, and basso).
Includes introduction and critical report.
Includes bibliographical references.
Italian words (texts by various poets); also printed as text with English translations: pages xv-xix.
Staff notation.
Summary:"Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, the fourth of six books of madrigals by the Florentine composer Marco da Gagliano, was published in 1606. The book is distinguished by the excellence of its music as well as by its varied settings of texts by some of the most celebrated poets of the day. Five of the madrigals use texts by Giovanni Battista Guarini, three by Giambattista Marino, one each by Gabriello Chiabrera, Cosimo Galletti, and Alsaldo Cebà, and a final two-part madrigal for six voices sets a sonnet by the great fourteenth-century poet Francesco Petrarca. In addition to fourteen madrigals by Gagliano, the book contains three by guest composers Luca Bati and Giovanni and Lorenzo Del Turco. Gagliano's madrigals in book 4, in contrast with those of his earlier books, are lighter and show the clear influence of the contemporary canzonetta, which is manifested in their brevity; the discrete sectioning of the music, frequently with concurrent rests in all the voices that separate the presentation of individual poetic lines; the omnipresent syllabic setting of words; and the simpler and shorter motives that are most often presented in a homophonic texture. In some of these madrigals, motives shaped by the melody and rhythm of spoken language might serve well in monodies. Indeed, in his magisterial study of the madrigal, Alfred Einstein went so far as to suggest that some of these madrigals have the effect of polyphonic, imitative arrangements of Florentine monodies." --
Publisher's no.:B221 A-R Editions, Inc.
Table of Contents:
  • Luci vezzose e belle / (Cosimo Galletti)
  • Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore / (Giovanni Battista Guarini)
  • Perfidissimo volto / (Guarini)
  • Occhi, un tempo mia vita / (Guarini)
  • Tutt'eri foco, Amore / (Guarini)
  • O chiome erranti, o chiome / (Giambattista Marino)
  • Ben quel puro candore / (Marino)
  • Lumi, miei cari lumi / (Guarini)
  • Hor che lunge da voi / (Gabriello Chiabrera)
  • Fugge dal tuo bel viso / (Ansaldo Cebà), Giovanni Del Turco
  • Per far nova rapina / (Marino), Lorenzo Del Turco
  • Neve tu mi rassembri il mio bel ghiaccio / Luca Bati
  • Ecco l'alba, ecco il giorno hor ti risveglia
  • Ove sì lieti, o bel drappel d'amanti
  • Quel vivo sole ardente
  • I' vo piangendo i miei passati tempi / (Francesco Petrarca).