Madrigals - Books IV and V

SKU: HL.49015916

ISBN 9790220124518. UPC: 884088567606. 8.25x11.75x0.375 inches. Italian.

Like many Englishmen I had sung madrigals for pleasure - usually late at night with friends, after several glasses of wine. While these madrigals have their charm, and many are extremely beautiful, I found, as I began an extended exploration of the madrigal as a creative venture, that the richest source lies in the Italian Renaissance.In 1998 I embarked on a project to write a series of madrigals, eventually deciding to collect them in 'books' in the manner of Italian madrigalists, such as Monteverdi or Gesualdo. The Second Book is for an unusual six-part group - the Scandinavian Trio Mediaeval (3 sopranos) and three tenors (John Potter plus two from the Hilliard Ensemble) - and sets Petrarch in the original 14th century Italian. I focused on those sonnets known as the Rima Sparsi (scattered verses) and added one extra Petrarch setting - originally a radiophonic piece (Marconi's Madrigal) for CBC's Marconi Day. Gavin Bryars.

SKU: AP.6-251020

ISBN 9780486251028. English.

This convenient edition makes available for the first time, 39 of Monteverdi's finest madrigals in one inexpensive paperbound volume. English translations of texts and other editorial material by Stanley Appelbaum. Sold in the USA only. 272 pgs.

SKU: BR.DV-7715-02

The works in this anthology were printed in part-books around 1580 and vividly document the high level of Italian madrigal composition before the great stylistic changes of the Baroque era. They offer vocal ensembles challenging and rewarding tasks. Baroque period. Choral score. 32 pages. Deutscher Verlag fur Musik #DV 7715-02. Published by Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (BR.DV-7715-02).

ISBN 9790200471595. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

The works in this anthology were printed in part-books around 1580 and vividly document the high level of Italian madrigal composition before the great stylistic changes of the Baroque era. They offer vocal ensembles challenging and rewarding tasks.

SKU: ST.EM31B

ISBN 9790220205958.

CONT ENTS
But let all those SSAAT (verse) SSAATB (chorus)
Come shepherd swains (SS (verse) SSATB (chorus))
Dear love, be not unkind (SSAT)
Fair Daphne, gentle shepherdess (SS (verse) SSATB (chorus))
Farewell, sweet woods (SSAT)
Fly away, Care (SSAT (or A) T (or B) B)
God is gone up (SSTTB (verse &chorus))
Haste thee, 0 God (SSAATB (verse & chorus))
I did woo her (SSAA)
I heard three virgins (SSATB)
No haste but good (SSAA (or T) B (or T) B)
O clap your hands (SSTTB (verse and chorus))
O Lord of whom I do depend (SS (verse) SSATB (chorus))
Quick, quick, away, despatch! (SSAA (or T) B (or T) B)
Thyrsis, sleepest thou? (SSAA (or T) B)
To hear men sing (SSATB)
Weep not, dear love (SSATBB)
What heart such doubled force? (SSATB)
When David heard (SSATTB)
When I lament (SSAT)
Whenas I glance (SSAT (or A))
Why are our Summer sports? (SSAT (or A))
You meaner beauties (S (verse), SSATB (chorus))
Your shining eyes (SSAB)
Your shining eyes (SSATBB).

SKU: KJ.E1453F

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) composed this madrigal in 1605. It appears in the fifth of his eight books of madrigals and is one of his most famous. Cruda Amarilli are the first words in a soliloquy from the play Il pastor fido, which was published in Venice in 1589 by the dramatic poet Battista Guarini (1538-1612). The soliloquy translates as follows: Cruel Amaryllis, who with your name to love, alas, bitterly you teach. Amaryllis, more than the white privetpure, and more beautiful, but deafer than the deaf asp, and fiercer and more elusive. Since telling offended you, I shall die in silence. Barry Toombs' elegant brass quintet arrangement of Monteverdi's madrigal setting of Cruda Amarilli successfully imitates the fluid quality of the human voice.

SKU: KJ.E1453

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) composed this madrigal in 1605. It appears in the fifth of his eight books of madrigals and is one of his most famous. Cruda Amarilli are the first words in a soliloquy from the play Il pastor fido, which was published in Venice in 1589 by the dramatic poet Battista Guarini (1538-1612). The soliloquy translates as follows: Cruel Amaryllis, who with your name to love, alas, bitterly you teach. Amaryllis, more than the white privetpure, and more beautiful, but deafer than the deaf asp, and fiercer and more elusive. Since telling offended you, I shall die in silence. Barry Toombs' elegant brass quintet arrangement of Monteverdi's madrigal setting of Cruda Amarilli successfully imitates the fluid quality of the human voice.