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Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance
Luzzasco LuzzaschiComplete Unaccompanied Madrigals
Edited by Anthony Newcomb
| Part 1 | |||
| R 136 | ISBN 0-89579-535-3 | (2003) lviii + 184 pp. | $93.00 |
| ISBN 978-0-89579-535-9 (13-digit) | |||
| Part 2 | Not yet published |
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| Part 3 | Not yet published |
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| Part 4 | Not yet published |
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This edition presents, in four volumes, the complete unaccompanied madrigals of Luzzasco Luzzaschi, director of music at the Ferrarese court at the end of the sixteenth century. Luzzaschi was among the most important and most admired musicians of the period, the teach of Girolamo Frescobaldi, the mentor of Carlo Gesualdo, the object of explicit admiration from Claudio Monteverdi, Claudio Merulo, Alfonso Fontanelli, Adriano Banchieri, and many others. Given Luzzaschi's importance, all surviving parts of his seven books of five-voice madrigals are transcribed. Given the importance of the Ferrarese school of literary madrigals, whose (otherwise usually unpublished) texts Luzzaschi was given to set, these texts have been transcribed and translated. Each setting by Luzzaschi is given a critical commentary by the editor, which often includes discussion of settings of the same texts by Luzzaschi's near contemporaries--settings which, if unpublished in modern edition are included in the present edition.
Part 1 of the unaccompanied madrigals of Luzzaschi incorporates all surviving parts of his last three books of madrigals--his Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Books of 1595-1604. The Fifth and Sixth Books seem to include recent pieces from the late 1590s; the Seventh Book seems to be a retrospective collection, including madrigals from ca. 1580 to ca. 1604. The edition includes transcriptions and translations of the poems set, often anonymous and usually otherwise unpublished. The poetry appears to be the product of the significant school of contemporary Ferrarase poetry, usually in the form of the late-century poetic madrigal, whose principal founders were the Ferrarese poets Torquato Tasso and Battista Guarini. The edition also includes nine settings by his near contemporaries of texts set by Luzzaschi in these three books.
Contents
Quinto libro de' madrigali a cinque voci
1. Aura, ch'errando intornoSesto libro de' madrigali a cinque voci
2. Itene a volo
3. Lungi da te
4. Se la mia vita
5. O Miracol d'Amore!
6. Ecco, ò dolce, ò gradita
7. Ahi, cruda sorte mia
8. Se parti i' moro
9. Tu godi, ò bell'amante
10. Io vissi, anima mia
11. Cinto di neve
12. All'hor fia lieto
13. Credete a me
14. Vivo da voi lontana
15. Parte il corpo
16. Moro ardendo
17. Come viva il mio core
18. Godete, anima bella
19. Può ben fortuna
20. Non guardar
1. Sorge la vaga AuroraSettimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci
2. Ah, come tosto passa
3. Tu, che con vari accenti
4. Non sono, oimè, queste mie luci degne
5. Nasce da l'ira sol
6. Talhor io vidi il Cielo
7. Se vi donai, gentil mia donna, il core
8. Non mi togliete il guardo
9. Si pose accorto sdegno
10. O dolorosa gioia
11. Se 'l bel guardo t'infiamma
12. Itene mie querele
13. Cor mio, benchè lontana
14. Nelle bell'opre sue
15. Se tu fuggi, io non resto
16. Son quei bei lumi l'arme
17. Doppia dolcezza i' godo
18. Se vi duol il mio duolo
19. Felicissimo sonno
20. Ancide sol la morte
21. Al fin, cor mio, ti vidi
1. Questo duol che mi struggeAppendix
2. Dov'io fuggo, crudele?
3. Gioite voi col canto
4. Tirsi morir volea
5. Piange i perduti figli
6. Questa vostra pietate
7. Hor pompa et ostro
8. Nel dolce sen
9. I' temo della speme
10. Di bei colori aurato e rubicondo
11. Dopo lungo digiuno
12. Non è questa l'Aurora
13. Chi diè spirto al mio canto
14. Hoggi nacqui, ben mio
15. Smeraldi eran le rive
1. Ecco, ò dolce, ò gradita, Alessandro Striggio
2. Ecco, ò dolce, ò gradita, Pomponio Nenna
3. Se parti io moro, Giuseppe Palazzotto e Tagliavia
4. Può ben fortuna, Paolo Bellasio
5. O sei geloso Amante, Antonio Il Verso
6. Sorge la vagh'aurora, Scipione Lacorcia
7. Cor mio, benche lontana, Ruggiero Giovannelli
8. Questa vostra pietate, Giovanni de Macque
9. Questa vostra pietate, Giovanni Del Turco