M108

note: Mancuso, 601-7 edits text and music of Razzi’s lauda. The cantus part of the lauda is based on the melody of ‘La pastorella si leva per tempo’ found in the mid-sixteenth century collection of dance tunes, M108. The single strophe of the cc. text transmitted here is identical in form and rhyme scheme to the lauda. The cc. text is found in Rome, Biblioteca Angelica Ms. 2435, no. 143, where it is organized in 5-line strophes.

note: a3 setting of cc. preserved in M108, and text transmitted in several sources of probable Florentine provenance, including RA2435, p.161, where the form is 5:11 (abbbc).

note: D’AnconaPP, 486. Music with same incipit in M108; see BeccheriniCat, 44 where the full title is given as ‘Maggio valente lo fior dell’estate’ among 20 other ‘canzoni a ballo’, and the ms. dated to the 2nd half of the 16thc. Melody ed. JeppesenF, iii, 94. GhisiCC, 98 lists it among carnival songs paired with laude, and gives the subtitle: ‘Era di maggio era la primavera’, but this latter is the title of a different piece in M108 (see JeppesenF, iii, 93). Lauda incipit and cc. title in Ch266, fol. 75r, but omitted from LuisiLG, i, 200-201.