The madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi
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The madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi
（Monuments of Renaissance music, v. 10）
University of Chicago Press, 2002
Printed Music（Full Score）
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Rossi, Michelangelo, 17th cent -- Madrigals
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For 5 voices, unacc
Italian words; also printed as text with English translation
Prefatory matter in English
Contents of Works
- Che pensi, cor di tigre?
- E così pur languendo
- Per non mi dir ch'io moia
- O prodighi di fiamme
- Come sian dolorose
- Straziami pur, Amor
- Era l'anima mia
- Occhi, un tempo mia vita
- Langue al vostro languir
- O miseria d'amante
- Or che la notte
- Ciechi desir
- Credetel voi
- Cor mio, deh non languire
- Pallida gelosia
- Ah dolente partita
- Ohimè, se tanto amate
- Cura gelata e ria
- "Si" mi dicesti
- Amor, io parto
- Voi volete ch'io mora
- Morto mi vede la mia donna in sogno
- Tu parti a pena gionto
- Con che soavità
- Alma afflitta, che fai?
- Moribondo mio pianto
- Io d'altrui?
- Una farfalla cupida e vagante
- Che dura legge hai nel tuo regno, Amore
- Quanto per voi sofferse
- Mentre d'ampia voragine tonante
- O donna troppo cruda e troppo bella
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Michelangelo Rossi's two books of five-voice polyphonic madrigals are among the most expressive works of their kind ever composed. Showing the influence of Gesualdo, the madrigals were probably written in Rome betwen 1624 and 1629, when Rossi was in the service of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. They were apparently never published, and there is only one complete manuscript source, which once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden and now forms the principal source for Brian Mann's critical edition. In his extensive introduction, Mann considers in detail the biographical, cultural and stylistic milieu in which the madrigals were written. The scholarly edition of the music, based on a thorough examination of all the known sources, includes a complete critical commentary. Mann's work on Rossi's madrigals has already helped revive interest in them. In 1998 a CD recording of Book I appeared on the Virgin label, performed by Il Complesso Barocco under the direction of Alan Curtis, based on this critical edition.
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