M365

note: Fenlon/Haar, 140 (concordant sources); JeppesenF, ii; Lincoln, 693 (incipits).

note: EinsteinIM, i, 250-1; Fenlon/HaarIM, 155 (concordant sources). This madrigal à4 appears in the Prologue of Machiavelli’s La Clizia. The story is set in Florence during the 1506 Carnival season, but the play was written and first performed in 1525; see discussion of the dramatic context in PirrottaMT, 128f, with ed. of music on 131-3. Music ed. SlimG, ii, 341-3.

note: EinsteinIM, i, 248-9; Fenlon/HaarIM, 156 (concordant sources); Lincoln, 690; HaarCM, 123, 253. Music ed. SlimG, ii, 379-81; EinsteinIM, iii, no. 16 (text ed. xv).

note: text & music of ‘Dolce Dio’ ed. Mancuso, 512-14. The popular tone and homophonic texture of the 3-part setting in Rz1563 suggest that this may be some version of the original music for the secular cc. text.

note: music & text of Razzi’s lauda ed. Mancuso, 608-10. Lauda ‘per i Novizi’. Cc. is probably the original secular model for several laude by Razzi with a similar incipit, and Rz1563 may transmit the original melody associated with this secular text. In Pal173, 32v, Razzi indicates that though he is the author of the text, the melody (‘una vaga canzonetta’) is clearly borrowed.

note: in Rz1563, music printed with text ‘Maria vergine bella’, and text of ‘Madre del gran signore/scala che ascendi’ on following page with no cantasi come indication, however the identity of the line lengths make certain the link. Music ed. LuisiLG,ii,73-4; Mancuso,663-9. Probably same as cc. = ‘O Maria vergine bella’, which is the cc. for a lauda (‘Diva vergine bella’) with an identical form. This text of the cc., a popular lauda, is ed. in Luisi, i, 274, where its structure as a ballata grande is clear (the fragmentary text in Rz1563 is transcribed in Mancuso, where she calls it a canzone).

note: JeppesenF, ii. Text of cc. is possibly by G.B. Strozzi il vecchio; see CarboniInc/298, no. 9560. Though the cc. cannot refer to madrigal settings with this incipit from the 1590s by Ingegneri and T. Riccio, it is possible given the frequency of madrigals as cc.s in M365 that the incipit refers to an earlier madrigal.

note: Music & text of Razzi’s lauda ed. Mancuso, 611--15. This may well be the original music, or at least the popular melody, for the secular text of the cc.