Musica spirituale (Angelo Gardano)
General information
Description: The collection contains 15 sacred madrigals for five voices, each with two parts, by various distinguished composers, plus two dialogues for a double choir of ten voices. The texts of the madrigals are all based on a single source: two poems - or one, intermingling the two - of fifteen stanzas each, the first addressing the Lord, the second addressing Mary; each madrigal uses a stanza of the first one for the first part and the respective stanza of the second one for its second part. In the abstract of a detailed study (see link below) Marco Giuliano says:
"The originality of the Musica spirituale consists in the fact that the 30 (+2) pieces are based on a single literary canzone of 15 metrically identical stanzas, each in turn divided into two parts of seven and five lines respectively. Each part follows a clear narrative course: the 15 odd-numbered parts [...] develop the main themes of Christian faith according to the history of the Christian revelation; the even-numbered series rigorously are settings on the 15 mysteries of the Marian rosary.”
Full title: Musica spirituale composta da diversi eccellentisssimi Musici a cinque voci, con due dialoghi à Dieci, Novamente posta in luce. In Venetia Appresso Angelo Gardano, 1586
First Publication date and place: 1586 by Angelo Gardano in Venice.
External websites:
- https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/publication/86036/edition/77968
- Giuliani, Marco. "'MUSICA SPIRITUALE DI ECCELLENTISSIMI AUTORI' (1586): UN ITINERARIO DEVOTO COLLETTIVO NEL MONDO DEL MADRIGALE." Rivista Italiana Di Musicologia 37, no. 2 (2002): 219-48.}}
List of works available on CPDL or IMSLP
List of works at CPDL
Title | Composer | Lyricist | No. | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
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Chori di Angeli | Giovanni Croce | 31 | Sacred | Madrigals | 10 | SSSAATTTBB | |
Donne il sommo e celeste re | Nicolo dalla Casa | 32 | Sacred | Madrigals | 10 | SATTB.SSATB | |
Signor, l'antica legge | Vincenzo Bellavere | 13-14 | Sacred | Madrigals | 5 | SATTB | |
Signor, pietà ti spinse | Giaches de Wert | 15-16 | Sacred | Madrigals | 5 | SATTB | |
Signor che già te stesso | Luca Marenzio | 21-22 | Sacred | Madrigals | 5 | SATTB | |
Signor cui fu già poco | Andrea Gabrieli | 1-2 | Sacred | Madrigals | 5 | SATTT | |
Signor cui piacque ornare | Orazio Vecchi | 5-6 | Sacred | Madrigals | 5 | SATTB | |
Signor le tue man sante à 5 voci | Giovanni Gabrieli | 23-24 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB | |
Signor mentre ch'in terra | Nicolo dalla Casa | 17-18 | Sacred | Madrigals | 5 | SATTB |