Enríquez de Valderrábano
Madonna qual certezza [Verdelot]
Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 35v
va062
| Source title | Entonae la boz prima en vazio. |
|---|---|
| Title in contents | Cancion Madonna qual certezza en el primero grado Verdelot |
| Text incipit | Madonna qual certezza |
Music
Category intabulation
Genre madrigal
Fantasia type
Mode 2
Voices 4
Length (compases) 103
Vihuela
Tuning G
Courses 6
Final VI/0
Highest I/2
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo not specified
Song Text
Language IT
Vocal notation texted staff notation
Commentary
Intabulation of a four-voice madrigal by Philippe Verdelot, first published in 1533. Based on the range of the parts, it is in mode 2 transposed to G, and is largely in hiompohponic style other than a couple of beautifully cascading imitative passages. Valderrábano gives the soprano part in mensural notation with the lower three voices in tablature for a vihuela in G.
Online modern edtion available at IMSLP
http://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/39/IMSLP651567-PMLP1044983-04-verdelot--madonna_qual_certezza----0-score.pdf
Gil 387
Il primo libro di madrigali (Venecia: Andrea Antico, 153 7).
Tutti li madrigali del primo et secando libro a quatro voci (Venecia: Girolamo Scotto, 1540).
Edición moderna: JessieAnn Owens, ed., Sixteenth Century Madrigal (NewYork:
Garland Publishing, 1989).
Literature
Recordings
Song Text
Madonna, qual certezza
haversi puo maggior del mio gran foco
che veder consumarmi a poco a poco.
Hayme non conoscete che permirarvi'l viso
son co'l pensier da me tanto diviso
che transformarmi sento in quel che sete.
Lasso non ve accorgete
che poscia ch'io fui pres'al vostro laccio
Arrosso i pallidisco, ardo, et aggiacio.
Dunque se cio vedete
Madonna qual certezza
haversi puo maggior del mio gran foco
che veder consumarmi a poco a poco.
My lady, what greater
proof need there be of my great ardour
than to see how I am consumed little by little
Alas, for me you jut do not know how by looking at you face
my mind becomes so estranged from me
that I feel that I have become transformed into you.
Poor me, you do not notice
that once caught in your trap
I am left blushing, I turn pale I am set afire, I freeze.
So if you see this my lady, what greater proof need there be
of my great ardour
than to see how I am conumed
little by little.
Intabulations
Modern edition(s)
Verdelot, Philippe. Madrigals for Four & Five Voices, Ed Jessie-Ann Owens. Sixteenth-century Madrigal 28-29. New York: Garland, 1989.
Printed source(s)
Verdelot, Philippe. Il Primo libro de madrigali di Verdelotto. Venice: O. Scotto, 1537.