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Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

Paolo Quagliati
Libro primo de' madrigali a quattro voci
Edited by Judith Cohen

B 79	ISBN 0-89579-339-3	(1996) xxii+110 pp.	$47.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-339-3 (13-digit)
B 79S	Supplement (solo voice and b.c.)
	ISBN 0-89579-372-5	(1996) v+79 pp.	$25.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-372-03 (13-digit)

Quagliati's Libro primo de' madrigali (1608) is a unique attempt within the madrigal literature around the turn of the seventeenth century to suggest to singers two equally valid options of performance, presented in two distinct sets of music: a four-part version, printed in four separate part books, and its reduction to a version for solo voice, printed together with basso continuo in a separate "partitura." This edition follows the composer's original concept, presenting the four-part madrigals in one volume and the solo-voice version in a separate supplement. Though often discussed by musicologists, Quagliati's madrigals have never appeared in a modern edition. This publication will thus enable performers and scholars to evaluate this "double-edged" enterprise both by its inherent musical qualities and as a musical document of the early seicento.

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Contents
Il primo libro de' madrigali a quattro voci
I lieti amanti (Sannazaro); Erano i capei d'oro (Petrarch); Uditi, amanti (Guarini); O primavera (Guarini); O dolcezze amarissimi d'Amore! (Guarini); Io moriro d'Amore (Guarini); Ch'io non t'ami (Guarini); Come cantar poss'io (Guarini); Come havra vit', Amor; Hoggi nacqui, ben mio (Guarini); Ahi chi mi rompe il sonno! (Veniero); I tuoi capelli (Sannazaro); Io vo cantar; Questo e l'esempio, amanti; Deggio dunque partire; O, quante volte in van (Guarini); Felice chi vi mira (Guarini); Posso, cor mio, partire; O bellezza gentile

Music Publishers' Association Paul Revere Award, 1997.