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Musica transalpina : (1588) / Nicholas Yonge [original compiler and editor] ; transcribed and edited by David Greer.

Other author/creatorYonge, Nicholas, -1619, editor, compiler.
Other author/creatorGreer, David, 1937- editor.
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoLondon : Stainer & Bell, ©2011.
Description1 score (xvii, 302 pages) : facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series The English madrigalists ; 42
English madrigalists ; 42. ^A638260
Contents Madrigals for four voices. These that be certain signs of my tormenting / Noë Faignient -- The fair Diana never more revived / Giovanni de Macque -- Joy so delights my heart and so relieves me ; False Love, now shoot and spare not / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- O Grief, if yet my grief be not believed ; As in the night we see the sparks revived / Baldassare Donato -- In vain he seeks for beauty that excelleth / Philippe da Monte -- What meaneth Love to nest him ; Sweet Love, when hope was flow'ring / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Lady, that hand of plenty / Marc'Antonio da Pordenon -- Who will ascend to heav'n, and there obtain me / Giaches de Wert -- Lady, your look so gentle / Cornelis Verdonck --
Contents Madrigals for five voices. From what part of the heav'n, from what example ; Part II, In vain he seeks for beauty that excelleth / Philippe da Monte -- In ev'ry place I find my grief and anguish / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Thyrsis to die desired ; Part II, Thyrsis that heat refrained ; Part III, Thus these two lovers fortunately died / Luca Marenzio -- Susanna fair, sometime of love requested / Orlando di Lasso -- Susanna fair, sometime of love requested / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- When shall I cease lamenting? / Noë Faignient -- I must depart all hapless / Luca Marenzio -- I saw my lady weeping, and Love did languish ; Part II, Like as from heav'n / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- So gracious is thy self, so fair, so framed ; Cruel! unkind! my heart thou hast bereft me / Giovanni Ferretti -- What doth my pretty darling? / Luca Marenzio -- Sleep, sleep, mine only jewel ; Part II, Thou bring'st her home full nigh me / Stefano Felis -- Sound out, my voice, with pleasant tunes recording / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Liquid and wat'ry pearls Love wept full kindly / Luca Marenzio -- The nightingale, so pleasant and so gay / Orlando di Lasso -- Within a greenwood sweet of myrtle savour / Giovanni Ferretti -- Sometime, when hope relieved me, I was contented / Rinaldo del Mel -- Rubies and pearls and treasure ; O sweet kiss, full of comfort ; Sometime my hope full weakly / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- Lady, that hand of plenty / Lelio Bertani -- My heart, alas, why dost thou love thine enemy? / Girolamo Conversi -- Lady, if you so spite me / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- When I would thee embrace (Cantio rustica) / Giovanni Battista Pinello -- Thyrsis enjoyed the graces ; The nightingale, so pleasant and so gay / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- The fair young virgin is like the rose untainted ; Part II, But not so soon: from green stock where it growed / William Byrd --
Contents Madrigals for six voices. I will go die for pure love / Luca Marenzio -- These that be certain signs of my tormenting ; So far from my delight, what cares torment me ; Part II, She only doth not feel it / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- Lo, here my heart in keeping / Anonymous -- Now must I part, my darling / Luca Marenzio -- Zephyrus brings the time that sweetly scenteth ; Part II, But with me, wretch, the storms of woe persever / Girolamo Conversi -- I was full near my fall, and hardly 'scaped ; Part II, But as the bird that in due time espying / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- I sung sometime the freedom of my fancy ; Part II, Because my love, too lofty and too despiteful / Luca Marenzio.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, English Madrigalists, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER Music M2 .F413.
General noteForty-seven (numbered 57 by Yonge) part songs consisting of 43 madrigals with original texts in Italian and 4 polyphonic chansons; for 4-6 voices, unacc.
General noteIncludes preface in English.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and indexes.
LanguageEnglish words, translated from Italian and French, with texts in the original languages printed separately in the critical commentary.
LCCN 2012563508
ISBN0852499221
ISBN9780852499221
ISMN M220223136
ISMN 9790220223136
Publisher numberEM42 Stainer & Bell

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