Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1578) / Leonard Meldert, Edited by Franco Piperno.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Meldert, Leonardo, approximately 1535-1610, composer.

Contributor:

Piperno, Franco, editor.

Series:

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance ; 161.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance ; 161

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Standardized Title:

Madrigals, voices (5)

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Madrigals, Italian--Scores.

Madrigals, Italian.

Part songs, Italian--Scores.

Part songs, Italian.

Genre:

Madrigals (Music)

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xxx, 119 pages)).

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

Italian words, also printed as texts with English translations on pages xx-xxix.

Staff notation.

Summary:

"Leonard Meldert's Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1578) has an interest and musical quality far beyond what one might guess from the modest facts of the author's life and works. The book partly reflects the musical tastes of the court of Urbino in the final years of Duke Guidobaldo II Della Rovere (1514-74) and of the private household of his brother, Cardinal Giulio Della Rovere (1533-78). But its structure and contents display some unusual features that can be linked to the circumstances of Meldert's life and to his own initiative in projecting and assembling his book of madrigals. Moreover, it offers the first settings of then-recent poems by Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and Giuliano Goselini, the result of the composer's personal contacts in the court of Ferrara and his ties to the literary and musical circle of Antonio Londonio, a Milan-based Spanish diplomat. This edition presents the Primo libro for the first time in a modern edition, examining Meldert's textual choices and musical style within the contexts of courtly life, his personal biography, and the nascent seconda prattica." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Quando la donna mia

M'apre talor

Il più leggiadro

Refrigerio sì dolce

Mille spirti infernali

Mille tormenti

Coppia rara

Qual fia

S'io vi domando

La lira mia

Dal vivo raggio

Come piena d'umor

Se l'atto trapassò

Tirsi morir

Dolci spogli

Negro era intorno

Stella ch'in ciel

Facelle son

Erra il sol

Amor l'alma.

Notes:

Edited from the edition published in Venice, 1578.

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed November 20, 2018).

Contains:

Container of: Meldert, Leonardo, approximately 1535-1610. Madrigals, voices (5). Più leggiadro viso.

OCLC:

1079239619

Publisher Number:

R161 A-R Editions, Inc.