Musica Transalpina

General Information

Titles:

• 1588. Musica Transalpina: Madrigals Translated of foure. fiue and sixe Parts, Chosen out of Divers Excelient Authors, with the First and Second part of La Verginella made by Maister Byrd
• 1597. Musica Transalpina: The Second Booke of Madrigalles, to 5, & 6. Voices; Translated out of Sundrie Italian Authors.

Editor – Compiler: Nicholas Yonge

Description: A series of books containing Italian madrigals, translated into English by Nicholas Yonge.

Publications using VolumesEditions

1 – Published 1588 – by Thomas Este in London, 57 madrigals

2 – Published 1597 – by Thomas Este in London, 24 madrigals

Facsimiles:

• Royal Holloway Digital Repository - 1588 edition
• Royal Holloway Digital Repository - 1597 edition

Contents

Edition 1 For 4 voices 1. These that be certain signs (Noë Faignient) 2. The fair Diana (Giovanni de Macque) 3. Joy so delights my heart (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) 4. False Love now shoot (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) 5. O grief, if yet my grief (Baldassare Donato) 6. As in the night (Baldassare Donato) 7. In vain he seeks for beauty (Philippe de Monte) 8. What meaneth Love to nest him (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) 9. Sweet Love when hope (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) 10. Lady that hand (Marc'Antonio da Pordenon) 11. Who will ascend (Giaches de Wert) 12. Lady your look so gentle (Cornelis Verdonck) For 5 voices 13-14. From what part of the heaven - In vain he seeks (Philippe de Monte) 15. In every place (Anonymous) 16-18. Thyrsis to die desired - Thyrsis that heat refrained - Thus these two lovers (Luca Marenzio) 19. Susanna fair (Orlando di Lasso) 20. Susanna fair whom lying lips (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 21. When shall I cease (Noë Faignient) 22. I must depart (Luca Marenzio) 23. I saw my lady weeping (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 24. Like as from heaven (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 25. So gracious is thy sweet self (Giovanni Ferretti) 26. Cruel unkind (Giovanni Ferretti) 27. What doth my pretty dearling (Luca Marenzio) 28-29. Sleep mine only jewel - Thou bringst her home (Stefano Felis) 30. Sound out my voice (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) 31. Liquid and watery pearls (Luca Marenzio) 32. The nightingale (Orlando di Lasso) 33. Within a greenwood (Giovanni Ferretti) 34. Sometime when hope relieved me (Rinaldo del Mel) 35. Rubies and pearls (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 36. O sweet kiss, full of comfort (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 37. Sometime my hope (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 38. Lady that hand of plenty (Lelio Bertani) 39. My heart alas (Girolamo Conversi) 40. Lady, if you so spite me (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 41. When I would thee embrace (Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi) 42. Thirsis enjoyed the graces (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) (also as Thirsis to Cloris pleaded) 43. The nightingale so pleasant and so gay (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 44-45. The fair young virgin - But not so soon (William Byrd) For 6 voices 46. I will go die for pure love (Luca Marenzio) 47. These that be certain signs (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 48. So far from my delight (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 49. She only doth not feel it (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 50. Lo here my heart (Anonymous) 51. Now must I part (Luca Marenzio) 52. Zephirus brings the time (Girolamo Conversi) 53. But with me wretch (Girolamo Conversi) 54. I was full near my fall (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 55. But as the bird (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 56. I sung sometime (Luca Marenzio) 57. Because my love (Luca Marenzio)

Edition 2 5 voices 1. The white delightfull swanne (Orazio Vecchi) 2. Zephirus brings the time that sweetly senteth (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 3. So farre, deere life, from thy bright beames absented (Giulio Eremita) 4. Cynthia, thy song (Giovanni Croce) 5. Fly if you wilt be flying (Giulio Eremita) 6. At sound of hir sweet voice & words betraying (Lucrezio Quintiani) 7. Browne is my Love but gracefull (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 8. The wine that I so deerly got, sweetly sipping (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 9. Dolorous morneful cares, ruthles tormenting (Luca Marenzio) 10. In flowre of Aprill springing (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) 11. Hills & woods, craggs & rocks (Lucrezio Quintiani) 12. Lady my flame stil burning (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) – First part 13. Sweet Lord, your flame still burning (Alfonso Ferrabosco I) – Second part 14. Sweet sparkle of Loves fire (Giovanni Maria Nanino) 15. Now springs each plant to heaven aloft aspriring (Lucrezio Quintiani) 16. Sweet eyes, admiring you I am left hartles (Stefano Venturi ) 6 voices 17. Love quench this heat consuming (Benedetto Pallavicino) 18. Cruell, why dost thou flye mee (Benedetto Pallavicino) 19. O gratious & worthiest of each creature (Giovanni Croce) 20. Shall I live so farre distant from thee my deare (Luca Marenzio) 21. So saith my faire & beautifull Licoris (Luca Marenzio) 22. For griefe I dye enraged (Andrea Feliciani) 23. Daintie white pearle, & you fresh smiling Roses (Antonio Bicci) 24. Hard by a Cristall fountaine (Giovanni Croce)

Works at CPDL

Edition 1 (1588)

Title	Year	Composer	No.	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Voices
Amor ben puoi	1586	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	4	Secular	Madrigals	4	ATBB
But as the bird	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	55	Secular	Madrigals	6	SAATTB
Cantai già lieto	1584	Luca Marenzio	56–57	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Che fa oggi il mio sole	1580	Luca Marenzio	27	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Chi per voi non sospira	1583	Noé Faignient	21	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Chi salirà per me	1558	Giaches de Wert	11	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
Deggio dunque partire	1581	Luca Marenzio	22	Secular	Madrigals	5	SAAAT,SSATB
Donna bella	1585	Cornelius Verdonck	12	Secular	Madrigals	4	STTB
Donna la bella	1580	Marco Antonio de Pordenon	10	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATT
Gioia s'abond'all cor	1586	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	3	Secular	Madrigals	4	ATBB
I saw my lady weeping	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	23	Secular	Madrigals	5	SATTB
I was full near my fall	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	54	Secular	Madrigals	6	SAATTB
In qual parte del ciel	1571	Philippe de Monte	13	Secular	Madrigals	5	SAATB
Io morirò d'Amore	1585	Luca Marenzio	46	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Lady, if you so spite me	1587	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	40	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Le rossignol plaisant et gratieux	1560	Orlando di Lasso	32	Secular	Chansons	5	SATTB,ATTBB
Like as from heaven	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	24	Secular	Madrigals	5	SATTB
Liquide perle	1580	Luca Marenzio	31	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Non al suo amante	1583	Giovanni de Macque	2	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATT
O sweet kiss, full of comfort	1587	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	36	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Ogni loco mi porge doglia e pianto	1559	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	15	Secular	Madrigals	5	SATTB
Parto da voi	1585	Luca Marenzio	51	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Per divina bellezza	1570	Philippe de Monte	7	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
Questi ch'inditio	1583	Noé Faignient	1	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATT
Rubies and pearls	1587	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	35	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
She only doth not feel it	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	49	Secular	Madrigals	6	SAATTB
So far from my delight	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	48	Secular	Madrigals	6	SAATTB
Sometime my hope	1587	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	37	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Susanna fair whom lying lips	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	20	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Susanne un jour	1560	Orlando di Lasso	19	Secular	Chansons	5	SATTB
The fair young virgin - But not so soon	1588	William Byrd	44-45	Secular	Madrigals	5	SATTB
The nightingale so pleasant and so gay	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	43	Secular	Chansons	5	SATTB
These that be certain signs	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	47	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Thirsis to Cloris pleaded	1588	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	42	Secular	Madrigals	5	SATTB
Tirsi morir volea	1580	Luca Marenzio	16–18	Secular	Madrigals	5	SATTB
Vestiva i colli e le campagne	1566	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	30	Secular	Madrigals	5	ATTTB
Zefiro torna e il bel tempo rimena	1584	Girolamo Conversi	52	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB

Edition 2 (1597)

Title	Year	Composer	No.	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Voices
Candide perle	1591	Antonio Bicci	23	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Cynthia, thy song	1597	Giovanni Croce	4	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Dice la mia bellissima Licori	1587	Luca Marenzio	21	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Dolce fiammella mia	1581	Giovanni Maria Nanino	14	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Dolorosi martir	1580	Luca Marenzio	9	Secular	Madrigals	5	SATTB
Donna, l'ardente fiamma	1587	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	12-13	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSAAB
Fuggi se sai fuggire	1589	Giulio Eremita	5	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Il bianco e dolce cigno	1589	Orazio Vecchi	1	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSATB
Ove tra l'herbe a 6	1592	Giovanni Croce	24	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTT
Vivrò dunque lontano	1591	Luca Marenzio	20	Secular	Madrigals	6	SSATTB
Zefiro torna	1587	Alfonso Ferrabosco I	2	Secular	Madrigals	5	SSTTB

References

External websites:

• RISM 1588²⁹
• RISM 1597²⁴