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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).
All downloads are free of charge; however, you must register with the site in order to download Scores and Texts/Translations.
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
Bellasio, Paolo
Bertani, Lelio
Caletti, Giovanni Battista
Califano, Giovanni Battista
Capilupi, Gemignano
Casentini, Marsilio
Cavaccio, Giovanni
Costa, Gasparo
Croce, Giovanni
Dalla Casa, Girolamo
Del Mel, Rinaldo
Dentice, Fabrizio
Falcone, Achille
Felis, Stefano
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Gagliano, Marco da
Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo
Ghizzolo, Giovanni
Guerini, Pietro Francesco
Leoni, Leone
Marenzio, Luca
Masnelli, Paolo
Massaino, Tiburzio
Monteverdi, Claudio
Mosto, Giovanni Battista
Pallavicino, Benedetto
Rognoni Taeggio, Francesco
Rore, Cipriano (De)
Ruffolo, Lucrezio
Sabino, Ippolito
Stabile, Annibale
Taroni, Antonio
Tomasi, Biagio
Tresti, Flaminio
Usper (Spongia), Francesco
Various (from Dolci Affetti, 1582)
Various (from Trionfo di Musica, 1579)
Vecchi, Orazio
Verdonck, Cornelius
Wert, Giaches de
Wert, Il Decimo libro (1591) (complete)
Wert, Ottavo libro (1586) (complete)
Zanchi, Liberale
Zanotti, Camillo
Zoilo, Annibale
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| Title and Description | Score | Midi | Translation | | Che giova posseder (prima parte of 4) (SATB)
Perhaps Wert had some particular ruler (and patron?) in mind in choosing to set this text by Pietro Bembo, a kind of mirror for princes: What avails you to amass power and riches, only to find yourself lying in bed cold and alone? | | Download | | Ma che non giova (seconda parte) (SATB)
| | Download | | Quant'esser vi dee car un uom (terza parte) (SATB)
| | Download | | Però che voi (quarta parte) (SATB)
| | Download | | Giunto alla tomba (prima parte of 2) (SATTB)
A stunning setting of one of the most poignant moments in Tasso's epic Gerusalemme Liberata: Tancredi lamenting his loss before the tomb of Clorinda, whom he has unwittingly slain in combat. (In a case of musical one-upmanship, Marenzio proceeded to set these plus an additional two stanzas.) | | Download | | Non di morte sei tu (seconda parte) (SATTB)
| | Download | | Vive doglioso il core (SMATB)
A madrigal on the theme of suffering for the sake of love. | | Download | | L'anima mia ferita (SS A/T TB)
A madrigal on a text by Ferrante Gonzaga, related to Wert's patron Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. Within the madrigal, Wert quotes his own setting of the text "Queste non son piu lagrime" (Quinto libro a 5, 1571) | | Download | | Vago augelletto (prima parte of 2) (SM A/T TB)
Wert's brilliant setting of an anguish-laden sonnet by Petrarch. The end of the prima parte is notably striking for its rendition of the words i dolorosi guai (the painful woes). | | Download | | Io non so se le parti (seconda parte) (SM A/T TB)
| | Download | | Ah dolente partita (SSATB)
Wert's compact but powerful setting of Mirtillo's anguished lament (Pastor Fido III/iii). See also the settings by Monteverdi, Artusini and Taroni. | | Download | | O primavera gioventù dell'anno (prima parte of 5) (SS A/T TB)
A gorgeous extended cycle which plumbs the panoply of Mirtillo's emotions as he awaits what will prove to be a disastrous encounter with his beloved Amarilli (Pastor Fido III/iii). | | Download | | O dolcezze amarissime d'amore (seconda parte) (SS A/T TB)
| | Download | | Ma se le mie speranze oggi non sono (terza parte) (SS A/T TB)
| | Download | | E s'altri non m'inganna (quarta parte) (SS A/T TB)
| | Download | | Oh lungamente sospirato in vano (quinta parte) (SS A/T TB)
| | Download | | Udite lagrimosi spirti (prima parte of 2) (SAATB)
A setting of Mirtillo's depths-of-dispair soliloquy (the opening lines of Pastor Fido III/vi), at which point he has abandoned hope of a reconciliation with Amarilli and is vulnerable to manipulation by Amarilli's rival Corisca. | | Download | | La mia donna crudel (seconda parte) (SAATB)
| | Download | | Scherza nel canto (SSATB)
An intriguing madrigal, which might be termed self-referential, about the effects of a woman's beautiful singing on the hearer. | | Download | | Tirsi morir volea (dialogo a 7) (SSA ATTB)
Wert approaches Guarini's famous (or notorious) text as much as an "amorous dialogue" as an exercise in erotic depiction. The inclusion of the piece in Wert's Settimo libro, dedicated to Margherita Farnese and commemorating her marriage to Vincenzo Gonzaga, suggests that Wert intended to convey a wish that their union be passionate and fruitful. See also the settings by Marenzio, Pallavicino, Tomasi and Zanotti. | | Download | | Ahi, come soffrirò (SMATB) *NEW*
The protagonist is tormented by the thought of his beloved in the arms of a rival. Wert's setting highlights the attendant wailing and gnashing of teeth. | | Download | | Ancorché l’alto mio nobil pensiero (SSATB) *NEW*
A melodramatic and gloomy musing on the prospect that sudden death would sever the protagonist from his (or her) beloved for all eternity. | | Download | | Grazie ch'a pochi il ciel (prima parte of 2) (SSATTB) *NEW*
A grand and glorious setting of a Petrarch sonnet, evidently "re-purposed" as a tribute to the virtues and graces of Vincenzo Gonzaga's bride, Margherita Farnese. (The unhappy match was to end in mutual recrimination and annulment shortly thereafter.) The work makes one wish that Wert had left more specimens of six-part writing to posterity. | | Download | | E que' begl'occhi (seconda parte) (SSATTB) *NEW*
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