Rz1563

note: The Razzi settings (Rz1563, Pal173) preserve the cantus melody of the madrigal setting found in Q21, Yale179, and Mgl.111. That this text in its madrigalesque setting was sung in early 16thc. Florentine convents is indicated by its arrangement in Rz1563, but the transmission of the text (without music or cc. rubric) in M365 and R2988.

note: see original cc: ‘Ben venga maggio’.

note: see ‘Alma mia’ with a cc. = ‘Spirti sian sempre gaudenti’ for possible music sources.

Note: FallowsCat, 565-6; Mancuso, 125-7; RostirollaLC, 783-4, 847. Dufay setting ed. CMM1/vi(r), no. 5; DuffinD, 62; facs. in PlanchartW (Q15, Ox). Rz1563 setting a2 & Razzi melody from Pal173 ed. in LuisiLG, ii, 137-9; Mancuso, 270-76. Text ed. in LG, i, 269 (attr. to Giustinian in many sources). See ‘Vergene bella gratiosa et pura’ in Ven145, w/melodic similarities. Later settings of text by Tromboncino (1510), & Rz1563, w/some melodic similarities (JeppesenF, ii, 105). In Pal173, Razzi presents a cantus melody for the first two lines, and this differs completely from either Dufay’s chanson or Rz1563.

note: text and music ed. Mancuso, 631-40. Rz1563 rubric: ‘...per una Suora che si vesti in Santa Catherina da Siena la festa di san Giovanni dicollato 1562’ (in Pal173, 32r, Razzi indicates that he composed the lauda ‘a petizione delle venerabile sourie di Santa Caterina da Siena’). The piece is in fact a contrafactum of Arcadelt’s 4-part madrigal (the music of which is faithfully preserved here) ‘Madonna il volto mio pallido.’

note: text and music ed. Mancuso, 598-600. Rubric in Rz1563: ‘Lamento della Maddalena al Sepolchro di Christo’.

note: text and music ed. Mancuso, 535-41. Rubric: ‘Laude all Nunziata di Firenze’ (Santissima Annunziata).