Comme la tourterelle (Philippe de Monte)

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• (Posted 2015-02-11)  CPDL #34542: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2015-02-11).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: This edition is offered at the published pitch (high chiavette) for SSAAT or transposed down a fourth for AATTB. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: Comme la tourterelle
Composer: Philippe de Monte
Lyricist: Pierre de Ronsard

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SSAAT or AATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1575 in Sonetz de Ronsard, no. 3
    2nd published: 1584 in Pratum musicum (ed. Emanuel Adriaenssen) – arr. for two voices and lute, Edition 1, no. 29
Description: From de Monte's collection of settings from Ronsard, Louvain, 1575.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Comme la tourterelle.