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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Note that, in the case of madrigals in multiple sections, the full Text/Translation may be downloaded from the entry for the first section (the prima parte).

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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
Masnelli, Paolo
Massaino, Primo a 6 (1604) (complete)
Massaino, Quarto a 5 (1594) (complete)
Massaino, Terzo a 5 (1587) (complete)
Mezzogorri, Giovanni Nicolò
Monteverdi, Claudio
Mosto, Giovanni Battista
Nasco, Giovan (Jan)
Nodari, Giovanni Paolo, Madrigali a 5 (complete)
Pallavicino, Benedetto
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

Sabino, Ippolito

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Title and Description	Score	Midi	Translation

Rendeasi lieto il giorno (prima parte of 2) (SSATB) A madrigal on the delights of pastoral life, by a prolific but little-known madrigalist who seems to have passed his career in the out-of-the-way town of Lanciano in the Abruzzo. The setting of the words "passar cantando" (spend [time] in singing) in the seconda parte is particularly charming. The piece has been transposed down a fourth; a version at the original pitch is also available.		Download
Poi d'invidia ripieno (seconda parte) (SSATB)		Download
La pastorella mia (SSTTB) A lively, animated madrigal with a conventional pastoral theme: Shepherdess declares her love for Shepherd; Shepherd hastens to take advantage of her offer; Shepherdess promptly makes herself scarce.		Download
Perfido è giunto il fine (prima parte of 2) (SSATB) A gloomy tale of betrayal and abandonment, told by a female protagonist. Perhaps a reference to a mythical figure in a similar predicament (Dido, Olympia, Ariadne) is intended.		Download
Ecco i' mi discoloro (seconda parte) (SSATB)		Download
Nel mirar gl'occhi (prima parte of 2) (SSATTB) NEW Guarini’s daringly erotic madrigale “Tirsi morir volea,” with its barely concealed depiction of foreplay, consummation, and afterplay, provided a fertile source of inspiration for many composers, including Croce, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Tomasi, Wert and Zanotti (q.v.). The text also generated a considerable number of imitations and knock-offs. The version used by Sabino, an unabashedly obvious paraphrase of Guarini's original, provides an early example.		Download
Il pastor lasso (seconda parte) (SSATTB) NEW		Download

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