Amor mi fa morire (Ludovico Balbi)

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• (Posted 2025-05-21)  CPDL #85014:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-05-21).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Source files may be found on my github (linked from my CPDL profile).

General Information

Title: Amor mi fa morire
Composers: Ludovico Balbi and Adrian Willaert
Lyricist: Dragonetto Bonifazi^{create page}
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1589 in Musical esercizio (Venice: Gardano), no. 1
Description: This collection is a musical exercise of providing new counterpoints to older, more famous madrigals. The canto part is from a 4-voice madrigal by Adriano Willaert published in Verdelot's secondo libro a 4, published in 1536. The other parts, including the canon at the 5th in the alto and tenore parts, are new.

Original text and translations

See Amor mi fa morire (Adrian Willaert).