Source title | Entonase la boz prima en vazio. |
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Title in contents | Cancion Dormendo un giorno en el segundo grado Verdelot. |
Text incipit | Dormendo un giorno |
Category intabulation
Genre madrigal
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 5
Length (compases) 119
Tuning A
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/2
Lowest VI/3
Difficulty not specified
Tempo not specified
Language IT
Vocal notation texted staff notation
Madrigal in five voices by Philippe Verdelot intabulated with the soprano in mensural notation and the lower parts in tablature for a vihuela in A. Insteqd of a vihuela in A, a vihuela in G would give the piece its original pitch. Gil’s transcription is therefore a tone higher than the original voice parts. At the original pitch the mode of the work aoppears to be mode 1, transposed to G, The text is by Antonio Broccardo and the work was reprinted several times after its first printing in 1535, in works such as Phalèse, Lucelentum Theatrum Musicum [1568/7], Nº 106. This work also appears in Hernando de Cabezón’s 1578 volume of works by his father, and it was also the basis for a parody mass by Francisco Guerrero.
Dormend'un giorn'a Baia'll' ombr'amore,
dove'l murmur de fonti più gli piacque,
corser ne Nimph'a vendicar l'ardore,
e la face gl'ascosen sotto l'acque,
ch'il crederebbe dentr'a quel liquore,
subitament'etterno foco nacque,
ond'a quei bagni sempr'il caldo dura,
che la fiamma d'amor acqua non cura.
Sleeping one day in the Bay in the shade of love,
where the murmur of the fountains most pleased him,
they ran to Nimph's to avenge the ardour,
and the face ascended under the waters,
which he would believe to be in that liquor,
and immediately eternal fire was born,
whereby the heat always lasts in those baths,
which the flame of love does not cure.
Verdelot, Philippe. Madrigals for Four & Five Voices, Ed Jessie-Ann Owens. Sixteenth-century Madrigal 28-29. New York: Garland, 1989.
Verdelot, Philippe. Madrigali a cinque. Libro primo. 4 vol. O. Scotto, Venezia: 1535.
Phalèse, Pierre. Lucelentum Theatrum Musicum. Antwerp: P. Phalese, 1568.