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note: see ‘Si ch’ i’ la...Magdalena’ as modo proprio (the cantus of the Rz1563 version is borrowed from a 5-part canzonetta (w/same incipit) by Francesco Layolle.

note: despite the similarity between this lauda incipit and another (‘Si ch’ i’ la vo seguire nessun’ altra offesa’), the latter is a secular song with a different form, and was set by Layolle and Cara.

note: lauda incipit refers to Belcari’s ‘Dammi il tuo amor Jesù benigno’, with musical setting in PetL/i (ed. LuisiLG,ii, 325-7) unrelated to Rz1563 setting of ‘Si ch’i la vo seguire Magdalena’. The cantus of Razzi’s version is borrowed, intact, from the 2nd superius of Francesco Layolle’s 5-part ‘Si ch’io la vo seguire nessun’altra offesa’; ed. D’AcconeMFR, iii, no. 19. Cc. ed. in Mancuso, no. 75 (Rz1563).

note: this lauda is a cc. for several other laude with the same incipit, and is transmitted as a lauda with a modo proprio. The cc. incipit may refer to this modo proprio, perhaps a secular song upon which Razzi drew for his 3-part setting of this lauda text. The cantus of Razzi’s version is identical to the 2nd superius of Francesco Layolle’s 5-part ‘Si ch’io la vo seguire nessun’altra offesa’, and both versions probably derive from an older source that may indeed be the music to which the LA766 incipit refers. The Layolle madrigal is ed. in D’AcconeMFR, iii, no. 19 (in the commentary D’Accone notes that it “uses a popular melody, albeit one of Italian origin, as a cantus firmus;” xiii). The same text was set by Cara, with music transmitted in Ve, no. 36, and PetF/xi (ed. in LuisiFr, no. 1, and PrizerCP, 449-51). Text & music of Razzi’s version ed. Mancuso, no. 75.

note: the original model for both poems may have been ‘Guardami, donna, un poco’, a cc. for 3 different laude in Ch266.

note: text of ‘Udite’ ed. BettariniJ, 404-7.

note: the refrain and the stanzas of the lauda are unrelated in rhyme and form.

note: alternate cc. for ‘I’ scrissi già’ = ‘Io vedo ben ch’al buon servire’ = ‘I’ veggo ben che’l ben servire’ (Ch266)