MASTER LIST OF COMPOSERS

Below is a list of composers currently represented on this Web site. Clicking on a composer's name will bring up a list of madrigals available to be downloaded. Three downloads are available for each madrigal: Score (in PDF format), MIDI (.mid) and Text/Translation (also in PDF).

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Aleotti, Vittoria
Arcadelt, Jacques (Giaches)
Artusini, Antonio
Bati, Luca, Primo a 5 (1594) (complete)
Bellasio, Paolo
Bertani, Lelio
Boschetti, Giovanni Boschetto
Caletti, Giovanni Battista
Califano, Giovanni Battista
Capilupi, Gemignano
Casentini, Marsilio
Cavaccio, Giovanni
Cifra, Antonio
Costa, Gasparo
Croce, Giovanni
D'India, Sigismondo
Dalla Casa, Girolamo
Del Mel, Rinaldo
Dentice, Fabrizio
Falcone, Achille
Felis, Stefano
Florio, Giorgio
Freddi, Amadio
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Gagliano, Marco da
Gastoldi, Concenti musicali a8 (1604/1610) (complete)
Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo
Gastoldi, Primo a 6 (1592) (complete)
Gastoldi, Quarto a 5 (1602) (complete)
Ghizzolo, Giovanni
Giovanelli, Ruggiero
Guami, Francesco
Guerini, Pietro Francesco
Ingegneri, MarcAntonio
Isnardi, Paolo
Leoni, Leone
Mancini, Curzio
Marenzio, Luca
Marsolo, Pietro Maria, Madrigali boscarecci a 4 (1607) (complete)
Masnelli, Paolo
Massaino, Terzo a 5 (1587) (complete)
Massaino, Tiburzio, Primo a 6 (1604) (complete)
Massaino, Tiburzio, Quarto a 5 (1594) (complete)
Mezzogorri, Giovanni Nicolò
Monteverdi, Claudio
Mosto, Giovanni Battista
Naldi, Romolo, Primo a 5 (1589) (complete)
Nasco, Giovan (Jan)
Nodari, Giovanni Paolo, Madrigali a 5 (complete)
Pallavicino, Benedetto
Raval, Sebastiano, Primo a 5 (1593) (complete)
Rognoni Taeggio, Francesco, Primo a 5 (1613) (complete)
Rognoni Taeggio, Giovanni Domenico, Primo a 5 (1605) (complete)
Rore, Cipriano (De)
Rossetti, Stefano
Rossi, Salamone
Ruffolo, Lucrezio
Sabino, Ippolito
Santini, Marsilio
Stabile, Annibale
Taroni, Antonio
Tomasi, Biagio
Tresti, Flaminio
Tresti, Secondo a 5 (1587) (complete)
Usper (Spongia), Francesco
Valmarana, Girolamo
Various (from Dolci Affetti, 1582)
Various (from Trionfo di Musica, 1579)
Vecchi, Orazio
Venturi del Nibbio, Primo a 5 (1592) (complete)
Venturi del Nibbio, Primo pastorali a 5 (1592) (complete)
Verdonck, Cornelius
Virchi, Paolo, Primo a 5 (1584) (complete)
Virchi, Paolo, Secondo a 5 (1588) (complete)
Wert, Decimo a 5 (1591) (complete)
Wert, Giaches de
Wert, Ottavo a 5 (1586) (complete)
Zanchi, Liberale
Zanotti, Camillo
Zoilo, Annibale

Naldi, Romolo, Primo a 5 (1589) (complete)

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Introduction
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Quando la bell’Aurora (prima parte of 2) (SSATB) *NEW*
A setting of the first two stanzas of a sestina by Petronio Barbati, a poet active in the first half of the 16th century. The text is a variation on the nature-is-so-beautiful-but-I’m-so-miserable theme, the protagonist yearning to return to the previous nighttime as a more appropriate setting for his gloomy thoughts.		 Download
Lasso, che come veggio aprir (seconda parte) (SSATB) *NEW*
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Dove potrò mai gir tanto lontano (prima parte of 2) (SSATB) *NEW*
Naldi appears to have stitched together two disparate ottava rima stanzas, in the first of which the protagonist seems frantic to escape Cupid’s clutches, while in the second, from a suitable remove, he pines for his now distant love-object. 		Download
Deh, dov’ è l’alma mia, dov ’è ’l mio sole (seconda parte) (SSATB) *NEW*
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Cantin le Muse l’opre gloriose (SSATB) *NEW*
A short poem of unknown authorship – perhaps penned by Naldi himself? – heaping praise on the composer’s benefactor Cardinal Iñigo d’Avalos (or d’Aragona).		 Download
Ben potete voi dire (SSATB) *NEW*
A text of unknown authorship, not known to have been set by any other composer.		 Download
O pastori felici (SSATB) *NEW*
The text comprises the first two stanzas of a lengthy poem titled Loda della vita pastorale (In praise of pastoral life) in which the sailor protagonists contrast their troubled and risky lives with the idyllic existence of shepherds. 		Download
Là ove l’Aurora al primo arbor rosseggia (SATTB) *NEW*
A setting of the first stanza of a much longer poem, the overall sense of which is to warn against the destructive power of Love/Cupid, and to praise chastity and married love. The author begins at the beginning, with the creation of Adam (although peculiarly placing the Garden of Eden near the source of the Nile). Unsurprisingly, everything is downhill from there. The text of “Errori sogni e vision oscure” (No.12) corresponds to stanza 30 of the same poem.		 Download
Pur hai fatto partita (SSATB) *NEW*
A setting of a poem of unknown authorship, on the well-worn theme of pain of separation contrasted with joy of reunion.		 Download
O voi che lieti in piccioletta nave (prima parte of 2) (SS A/T TBar) *NEW*
The text is a sonnet in praise of one Filomena (probably a pseudonym, if indeed a real person) of astonishing beauty and vocal ability. She is placed in a nautical setting; Filomena’s powers of singing are reputed to surpass even the hypnotic abilities of sea-sirens.		 Download
E se volgete il legno anco alla riva (seconda parte) (SS A/T TBar) *NEW*
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Errori sogni e vision oscure (SSATB) *NEW*
The text is a stanza from a lengthy verse tale warning against the destructive power of Love/Cupid, and in praise of chastity and married love. (See also “Là ove l’Aurora al primo arbor rosseggia,” No.8.) The author’s message is rather bleak: profane love engenders errors, daydreams, gloomy visions, and misguided thinking, eventually leading to lovers’ unremitting pain and suffering. 		Download
La giovinetta scorza (S A/T TTB) *NEW*
The text was first set to music by Lelio Bertani in the anthology Il lauro verde (1583), a commemoration of the marriage of the renowned Ferrarese court singer Laura Peverara to Count Annibale Turco. The same text was subsequently set by Sigismondo d’India. 		Download
L'aura che già di questo fragil legno (prima parte of 7) (SAATB) *NEW*
An extended setting of a sestina by Giovanni Battista Amalteo. It consists of six six-line stanzas, constructed in such a way that each line ends with one of the six words legno, scogli, venti, onde, porto, corso, in as many permutations. To these are appended a so-called chiusa, a kind of coda, each of whose three lines contains two of the six words. In contrast to common 16th-century practice, Naldi sets the chiusa to music; moreover, his six-voice setting features a canon in diapason (i.e., at the lower octave) derived from the Canto.		 Download
Mai non provai più faticoso corso (seconda parte) (SAATB) *NEW*
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Signor, che pur col ciglio affreni i venti (terza parte) (SAATB) *NEW*
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Io ebbi ardir d’abbandonar il porto (quarta parte) (SAATB) *NEW*
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Ora dagli occhi verso dogliose onde (quinta parte) (SAATB) *NEW*
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A miglior parte uscito degli scogli (sesta parte) (SAATB) *NEW*
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Tu che col guardo reggi i venti e l’onde (settima ed ultima parte) (SAATTB) *NEW*
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Più di me lieta non si vede a terra (SATB/SATB) *NEW*
A double-choir setting a8 of the first eight lines of a sonnet by Petrarch. 		Download

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