Rz1563

note: rubric in Rz1563: ‘Hinno dell’hora Nona’.

note: rubric in Rz1563: ‘Hinno dell’hora sesta’.

note: rubric in Rz1563: ‘Hinno dell’hora Terza’. Razzi’s rubric immediately following the Latin hymn ‘Jesus dulcis memoria’ would seem to indicate that the ‘following hymns’ (including ‘Adesso, spirto’ and 4 others on 98v) were to be sung to the music of ‘Jesus dulcis memoria’, but the poetic forms and content of all five are more closely matched to the text and music following on 99r (Str:11), ‘Che bella vita ha il mondo’; a3 setting ed. Mancuso, no. 56. Mancuso, 567 reached the same conclusion. The cc. text extols the delights of rustic life, and is ed. and discussed at length by E. Pasquini, Una «bucolica» anonima del primo cinquecento e il manoscritto della ‘Mandragola’, «Giornale storico della letteratura italiana», CXLIV, 1967, 170-233. The secular poem clearly circulated in oral tradition, and to the version available to Razzi was added three more stanzas (Rz1563, fol. 100) extolling the virtues of the life of the hermit, the friar, and the nun, the only sacred texts among the 14 stanzas in Rz1563. A slightly different setting of this same melody is found in Razzi’s autograph ms., Pal173, 14v, with the text ‘Misera me che in van mi doglio’ (also a cc. text).

note: rubric in Rz1563: ‘Hinno che si dice a prima tradotta con i seguenti da Fra Serafino Razzi’ .

note: text & music ed. Mancuso, 556-63. ‘Stanze da cantarsi nell’essequie di qualche morto fedele’.

note: text & music ed. Mancuso, no. 44.

note: Music & text ed. Mancuso, 461-5. Cc. for ‘Spiriti sian’ = ‘Caritate amore Dei’ (M365). Though Razzi does not here transmit the original music for ‘Caritate amore Dei’, it nevertheless reinforces the impression that this lauda is a paraphrase of a carnival song, or more likely, that it is a sacred carnival song, and that the 3-part, homophonic, & rhythmically buoyant setting transmits the original music of this carnival song. As a kind of ‘Canzona deglie spiriti beati’, it is similar to Machiavelli’s ‘Spirti beati sìano’, which Bruscagli dates to ca. 1523; BruscagliTCC, i, 30-32. Following ‘Spirti sian’ in Rz1563 is ‘Povertà, fatiche’ (also bearing a cc. of ‘Caritate amore Dei’ in M365), and this is a 2-part arrangement of the original music for ‘Caritate amore Dei’.