Description
Yonge, Nicholas: Musica Transalpina (1588)
Ref
EM42
Categories
Choral Music
,
Collected Editions
,
The English Madrigalists
By
Nicholas Yonge
Edited by David Greer
First published in 2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (mm): 250 x 175 x 20
Weight: 640g
This is the first ever complete published edition of a major madrigal collection that is essential to our understanding of the fruitful interaction of Renaissance Italian and English music.
In four, five and six voices, the 57 pieces of
Musica Transalpina
include 51 madrigals by Marenzio, Palestrina and others, the two parts of Byrd’s ‘La virginella’, and four French chansons. Uniquely, the anthology also features singing translations of the original poems from the Italian into the vernacular, for which it was widely admired and circulated. As a printed source from which composers could learn the madrigal style and aesthetic, it was hugely influential in inspiring the ‘golden age’ of Tudor and Jacobean vocal music.
An important addition to
The English Madrigalists
series,
Musica Transalpina
of 1588 is not only of great scholarly interest but is also an outstanding addition to the repertoire that will delight contemporary singers no less than it enthralled those Elizabethans who first responded with such enthusiasm to its fine music and accessible ‘Englished’ texts.
Individual titles from this volume are available as Adobe PDF files…
