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Miguel de Fuenllana

Il bianco e dolce cigno [Arcadelt]

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 121

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Source title Strambote a quatro. D.
Title in contents   Li bianco & dolce
Text incipit Il bianco e dolce cigno


Music

Category intabulation

Genre madrigal

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices 4

Length (compases) 91

Vihuela

Tuning

Courses 6

Final IV/2

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty difficult

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language IT

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Intabulation of a madrigal by Arcdaelt, one of his most famous.

Editions
Literature

Willits, William. "Borrowing in the Music and Culture of the Vihuela: A Case Study on the Intabulation." MA Diss. Electronic Thesis or Dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2014. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. 16 Apr 2016.

Recordings

costoyas01 Fuenllana & Narvaez: Music for Vihuela in the Royal Courts of Spain Dolores Costoyas solo Narváez, Fuenllana

wallace04 Piva Duo LiveOak (Nancy Knowles, Frank Wallace) solo vihuela song Arcadelt Fuenllana Flecha

Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Arcadelt, Jacob. Opera Omnia / ed. Albert Seay. American Institute of Musicology in collaboration with the American Musicological Society, 1965-1970.- 10 vol. Vol.2: Madrigali, Libro primo, 1970.

Harman, Alec. Popular Italian Madrigals of the Sixteenth century for mixed voices. London: Oxford University Press. 1976.

Printed source(s)

Arcadelt, Jacques. Il primo libro dei madrigali d'Archadelt a quatro, con nuova gionta impressi. Venice: A. Gardane, 1541.

Manuscripts