Pesenti: Complete Works

Series: Renaissance  Publisher: A-R Editions
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Michele Pesenti
Complete Works

Edited by Anthony M. Cummings, Linda L. Carroll, Alexander Dean

R171 Pesenti: Complete Works
978-1-9872-0139-0 Full Score (2019) 8.5x11, liii + 218 pp.
$350.00
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SKU
R171

Performance Parts (Available Separately)

R171P1
Instrumental Part(s) (2019)
Part (lute)
$26.00

R171P2
Instrumental Part(s) (2019)
Parts (C, A, T, B)
$52.00
Alfred Einstein assumed continuities between frottola and madrigal, though more recent scholarship has refuted these continuities: these were two different genres, cultivated in different centers of patronage, by different composers, and for different audiences. Michele Pesenti (ca. 1470–1528), however, composed in both genres thanks to different professional circumstances. He composed frottole while in Ferrarese employ, and later, when he secured an appointment at the court of Pope Leo X, he (or someone acting for him) refashioned several of his frottole as madrigals: textless lower instrumental lines are provided with text, converting a composition for a vocalist with instrumental accompaniment into one for an ensemble of four vocalists.
 
This pioneering edition of Pesenti's complete works offers parallel editions of compositions existing in both these forms, as well as compositions for solo voice and instrumental consort that were later arranged for voice and lute. It further seeks to clarify the procedures used in expanding the abbreviated presentation of the frottola’s text and music into readily performable form. The editorial team includes a musicologist, a linguist, and a musicologist-performer.
Secular Works
1. A Dio, signora, adio (oda [frottola baratelliana])
2. Ahimè, ch’io moro (oda [frottola baratelliana])
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
3. Ardo e bruscio (frottola-proper)
4. Ben mille volte (capitolo)
5. Dal lecto me levava (frottola-caccia)
6. Dime un poco che vol dire (barzelletta)
7. Fuggir voglio el tuo bel volto (frottola-proper)
8. Inhospitas per alpes (Latin ode)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
9. Integer vitae (Latin ode)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
10. L’aqua vale al mio gran foco (frottola-proper)
11. Non mi doglio già d’amore (frottola-proper)
12. O Dio, che la brunetta mia (villotta [villottistic composition])
13. Passando per una rezolla (frottola with enjambment)
14. Poi che ’l ciel e la fortuna (frottola-proper)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
15. Questa è mia, l’ho fatta mi (barzelletta)
16. Se in tutto hai destinato (oda [frottola baratelliana])
17. S’io son stato a ritornare (frottola-proper)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
18. Sempre l’è come esser sole (frottola-proper)
19. Sì me piace el dolce foco (barzelletta)
20. Trista e noiosa sorte (oda [frottola baratelliana])
21. Tu te lamenti a torto (oda [frottola baratelliana])
22. Una legiadra donna (oda [frottola baratelliana])
23. Vieni ormai, non più tardare (frottola-proper)
24. Ahimè lasso, ahimè dolente (barzelletta)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
25. Amor, poi che non poi (strambotto)
26. O bon, egli è bon (barzelletta [altered])
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
27. Sia felice la tua vita (oda [frottola baratelliana])
28. Deh, chi me sa dir novella (barzelletta [altered])
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
29. Io son l’ocel che con le debil ali (strambotto distich)
30. Non è pensier che ’l mio secreto intenda (canzone)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
31. Spenta m’hai del pecto amore (frottola-proper)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
32. Io voria esser colù (barzelletta with popular refrain)
33. Che faràla, che diràla (barzelletta)
Version A. Four-Voice Setting
Version B. Lute Intabulation
Version C. Keyboard Intabulation
34. Quando lo pomo vien (villotta [villottistic composition])
Version A. Frottolistic Setting
Version B. Villottistic Setting
35. So ben che lei non sa (villotta [villottistic composition])
Version A. Frottolistic Setting
Version B. Villottistic Setting
36. Alma gentil (canzone)
 
Sacred Works
1. Bonum est sperare
2. Manus Domini
3. Tulerunt Dominum meum