Il lamento di Olimpia et canzone : Venice, 1567 : three works for Isabella de' Medici / Stefano Rossetti ; edited by James Chater.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Rossetti, Stefano, active 1560-1583, composer.

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533, author.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, author.

Contributor:

Medici, Isabella Romola de', 1542-1576, dedicatee.

Chater, James (James Michael), editor.

Series:

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance ; 165.

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance, 2577-4573 ; 165

Standardized Title:

Lamento di Olimpia con canzone

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533--Musical settings.

Ariosto, Lodovico.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Musical settings.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Madrigals, Italian--Scores.

Madrigals, Italian.

Vocal ensembles, Unaccompanied--Scores.

Vocal ensembles, Unaccompanied.

Genre:

Art music.

Madrigals.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score,xxv, 139 pages, 4 pages of plates) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2017.

Language Note:

Italian words, also printed as text with English translation on pages xix-xxiv.

Staff notation.

Summary:

Stefano Rossetti (d. ca. 1584) was a Savoyard composer associated with the Medici family in Florence. His expressive, experimental style and penchant for multipartite forms and large vocal ensembles might assure him a prominent place in the history of the Italian madrigal, but because of the incomplete survival of his music and patchy biography, his life and works remain under-explored. Among his incomplete works is Il lamento di Olimpia et canzone (Venice, 1567), which lacks the Alto partbook. The print opens and closes with multipartite cycles: a vast lament from Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso and a canzone in praise of Isabella de' Medici, to whom the publication is dedicated. Between them is a setting of Petrarch's "Non al suo amante" (Canzoniere, no. 52), which adumbrates the canzone thematically. Il lamento di Olimpia et canzone has often been cited in the secondary literature in connection with Isabella de' Medici, and its monumental scale has been noted by music historians. Detailed discussion of the music, however, has been hampered by the lack of a modern edition, due no doubt to its incomplete state. By providing a reconstruction of the missing voices, the present edition fills this lacuna, making these works available to scholars and performers for the first time. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Il lamento di Olimpia. Fra quanti amor

Il falso amante

Rimase addietro

Nessuno trova

E corre al mar

Quivi surgea nel lido

Vide lontano, o le parve vedere

E dove non potea

Ma i venti

E con la faccia in giù

Uomo non veggio qui

Io sto in sospetto

Ma presuppongo ancor

Tu m'hai lo stato mio

Debbo forse ire in Frisa

Deh, pur che da color

Corre di nuovo

Non al suo amante(madrigal a 5)

Canzone. Donna? non donna gia

Della tenera etade

Poscia rivolto

Qual gia` Diana

Dunque chi canterà

Ma io che poss'altro.

Notes:

Madrigals, for 4-10 voices.

Edited from partbooks published: Il lamento di Olimpia con una canzone del medesimo, a quattro, a cinque, a sei, a setti, a otto, a nove, & dieci voci (Venice : Girolamo Scotto, 1567). The lost alto partbook is reconstructed.

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed October 19, 2018).

Contains:

Container of: Rossetti, Stefano, active 1560-1583. Lamento di Olimpia con canzone.

OCLC:

1074253842

Publisher Number:

R162 A-R Editions, Inc.