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
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

Verdonck, Cornelius

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Title and Description	Score	Midi	Translation

Vieni, dolce Imeneo (SSATTB) A setting of part of the festive Chorus at the close of Il Pastor Fido (Act V Scene ix), celebrating the nuptials of Amarilli and Mirtillo. Verdonck, a Flemish composer active in both Antwerp and Madrid, published a volume of Italian madrigals in addition to sacred and other secular music.		Download
Rosa grata e gentile (SSA A/T Bar) NEW A madrigal on a text by Luigi Groto, known as “Cieco d’Adria” because he had been sightless since shortly after birth. In the 1601 edition of his Rime, Groto offered the following commentary on this poem: “The author spent a night in the home of Signora Rosa Levi, who prepared his bed with her own hands, and garnished it with flowers, thus giving rise to this madrigale.” It seems that this Rosa Levi had been born to a Jewish family in Venice, around the middle of the 16th century, and, having surreptitiously decided to convert to Catholicism, somehow made her way to Groto’s home town of Adria. (How Levi might have responded to the proposition expressed in Groto’s madrigale is not recorded.) A version transposed down a fourth is also available.		Download
Lasso che per le piagge (S A/T TB) NEW A poem of unknown authorship, on the well-worn theme of “nature-is-so-beautiful-but-I’m-so-miserable.” The text appears to be a kind of cut-down version or paraphrase of Petrarch’s well-known sonnet “Zefiro torna e ’l bel tempo rimena,” set to music by Monteverdi, Marenzio and others. “Lasso che per le piagge” was also set to music by Giovanni Bernardino Nanino.		Download

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