Il primo libro delle muse a quattro voci (Antonio Barré)

General information

Title: Primo libro delle muse a quattro voci

Full Titles:

• Barré edition: Primo libro delle muse a quattro voci madrigali ariosi di Ant. Barré et altri diversi autori, nuovamente stampati.
• Gardano edition: Madregali ariosi a quatro voci composti, da diuersi eccellentissimi Autori, Et per Antonio Gardano Nouamente Con somma diligentia stampati. Libro primo delle Muse.

Genre, Subgenre: Secular, Madrigals. Language: Italian, 4 voices.

Publications using VolumesEditions

1 – Published 1555 – in Rome by Antonio Barré - 22 madrigals

2 – Published 1557 – in Venice by Antonio Gardano - 29 chansons

Description: This collection contains twenty-one four-part madrigals by Italian and Franco-Flemish composers. It was reprinted in 1557 by Antonio Gardano, who dropped two works by Antonio Barré and added nine new works by various composers. Gardano reprinted his edition in 1559, 1565, and 1569, and it was reprinted by his son, Angelo, in 1578 and 1582. It was also reprinted by Girolamo Scotto in 1558, Rampazetto in 1562, and Vincenti and Amadino in 1584.

Facsimiles:

• Bologna International Museum and Library of Music - 1557 edition: Cantus, Tenor, and Bassus only
• Royal Holloway Repository - 1558 edition: Cantus, Tenor, and Bassus only
• Royal Holloway Repository - 1565 edition: all four parts
• Bologna International Museum and Library of Music - 1569 edition: Tenor only
• Bologna International Museum and Library of Music - 1582 edition: Canto and Tenore only
• Bologna International Museum and Library of Music - 1584 edition: Tenore and Basso only

References

External websites:

• RISM 1555²⁷
• RISM 1557¹⁷
• RISM 1558¹²
• RISM 1559¹⁸
• RISM 1565¹⁰
• RISM 1569²¹
• RISM 1578²⁰
• RISM 1582⁷
• RISM 1584⁶

List of works

1. Dunque fia ver dicea (Antonio Barré) 2. L'aer gravato (Jacques Arcadelt) 3. Carco di tant'honori'il signor mio (Vincenzo Ferro) 4. Fedel qual sempre fui (Ghiselin Danckerts) 5. Deh come belle sete (Vincenzo Ferro) 6. Chi brama'udir che noi (Vincenzo Ferro) 7. Non e pena maggior (Antonio Barré) 8. Ben si vedra se la nemica mia (Anonymous) 9. Poi che per ben amar porto tormento (Anonymous) 10. Miser in van mi doglia (Giuliano Tostolo) 11. Quanto piu mio fiso (Vincenzo Ferro) 12. S'altri s'afflige'et duole (Anselmo de Reulx) 13. Ne cosi bell'il sole giamai (Anonymous) 14. Occhi leggiadri (Bernardino Lupacchino)

15. Il dolce sonno mi promese pace (Bernardino Lupacchino) 16. Tosto chi sol si scopr'in oriente (Giovanni Domenico da Nola) 17. Sia vil a gl'altri (Alessandrino Veneziano) 18. Oime oime dov'el mio sole (Lambert Courtois) 19. Deh perche ciel (Anonymous) 20. Chiudimi gl'occhi'amore (Vincenzo Ruffo) 21. Mille sospir la notte (Anonymous) 22. Chiara si chiaro (Vincenzo Ferro) 23. Quel viso'ov'e l'albergo del mio core (Anonymous) 24. Come nave ch'in mezo'all'onde sia (Anonymous) 25. Cosi son'io nel piant'aspr'et amaro (Anonymous) 26. Laura celeste (Anonymous) 27. Cosi soav'e'l fuoco (Giovanni Francesco Caldarino) 28. Sall'hor che piu sperai (Paolo Animuccia)

Works at CPDL

Edition 1 (1555)

Title	Composer	Year	No.	Subgenre	Voices
Fedel qual sempre fui	Ghiselin Danckerts	1555	4	Madrigals	SATB
Occhi leggiadri	Bernardino Lupacchino	1555	14	Madrigals	ATTB

Edition 2 (1557)

Title	Composer	Year	No.	Subgenre	Voices
L'aer gravato	Jacques Arcadelt	1557	2	Madrigals	SATB