Record ID
408654
Accession number
PMC 2204-9
Object title
Musica transalpina : the second booke of madrigalles to 5 and 6 voices / translated out of sundrie Italian authors & newly published by Nicolas Yonge.
Published
At London : Printed by Thomas Este, 1597.
Credit line
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 2017.
Provenance
Frederick Locker, with his bookplate; William Augustus White; John Whipple Frothingham, with his bookplate.
Notes
Collection of 24 Italian madrigals given English texts, for 5 or 6 voices.
The first 16 madrigals for 5 voices; the final 8 madrigals for 6 voices.
With table of contents in each part book.
On the title page verso is printed a large coat of arms, facing a dedication page to Sir Henry Lennard.
Six part books, each with separate dated title page and register. Third word of title, part 2, ALTVS; part 3, TENOR; part 4, QVINTVS; part 5, SEXTVS; part 6, BASSVS.
Signatures: [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] D₄ (D₂ missigned B₂); [A₂] B-D₄.
The first 16 madrigals for 5 voices; the final 8 madrigals for 6 voices.
With table of contents in each part book.
On the title page verso is printed a large coat of arms, facing a dedication page to Sir Henry Lennard.
Six part books, each with separate dated title page and register. Third word of title, part 2, ALTVS; part 3, TENOR; part 4, QVINTVS; part 5, SEXTVS; part 6, BASSVS.
Signatures: [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] B-D₄; [A₂] D₄ (D₂ missigned B₂); [A₂] B-D₄.
Contents
The white delightfull swanne / Horatio Vecchi --Zephirus brings the time / Alfonso Ferabosco -- So farre deere life / Giulio Eremita -- Cinthia thy song & chaunting / Giouanni Croce -- Fly if thou wilt bee flying / Giulio Eremita -- At sound of hir sweet voyce / Lucretio Quintiani -- Browne is my Loue but gracefull / Alfonso Ferabosco -- The Wine that I so deerely got / Alfonso Ferabosco -- Dolorous mournefull cares / Luca Marenzio -- In flowre of Aprills springing / Alfonso Ferabosco -- Hills and woods, craggs and rocks / Lucretio Quintiani -- Lady my flame. The first part / Alfonso Ferabosco -- Sweet Lord. The second part / Alfonso Ferabosco -- Sweet sparkle of Loues fire / Gio Maria Nanino -- Now springs each plant to heauen / Lucretio Quintiani -- Sweet eyes admiring / Ste. Venturi -- Loue quench this heat consuming / Benedetto Palauacino -- Cruell, why dost thou flye mee / Benedetto Palauacino -- O gratious and worthiest / Giouanni Croce -- Shall I liue so far distant from thee / Luca Marenzio -- So sayth my faire and beautifull / Luca Marenzio -- For griefe I dye enraged / Andrea Feliciane-- Daintie white Pearle / Antonio Bicci -- Hard by a Christall fountaine / Giouanni Croce
Associated names
Bicci, Antonio, 1552-1614, composer.
Croce, Giovanni, approximately 1557-1609, composer.
East, Thomas, 1540?-1608?, printer.
Eremita, Giulio, approximately 1550-approximately 1600, composer.
Feliciani, Andrea, -1596, composer.
Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, composer.
Lennard, Henry, Sir, 1570-1616, dedicatee.
Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, composer.
Nanino, Giovanni Maria, 1543 or 1544-1607, composer.
Pallavicino, Benedetto, approximately 1551-1601, composer.
Quintiani, Lucretio, approximately 1555- composer.
Vecchi, Orazio, 1550-1605, composer.
Venturi del Nibbio, Stefano, active 1592-1600, composer.
Yonge, Nicholas, -1619, publisher.
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895, former owner.
White, William Augustus, 1843-1927, former owner.
Frothingham, John Whipple, former owner.
Croce, Giovanni, approximately 1557-1609, composer.
East, Thomas, 1540?-1608?, printer.
Eremita, Giulio, approximately 1550-approximately 1600, composer.
Feliciani, Andrea, -1596, composer.
Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, composer.
Lennard, Henry, Sir, 1570-1616, dedicatee.
Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, composer.
Nanino, Giovanni Maria, 1543 or 1544-1607, composer.
Pallavicino, Benedetto, approximately 1551-1601, composer.
Quintiani, Lucretio, approximately 1555- composer.
Vecchi, Orazio, 1550-1605, composer.
Venturi del Nibbio, Stefano, active 1592-1600, composer.
Yonge, Nicholas, -1619, publisher.
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895, former owner.
White, William Augustus, 1843-1927, former owner.
Frothingham, John Whipple, former owner.
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