Ricercate e Passaggi (27 titles)

Ricercate e Passaggi

Collection of 27 titles

13 Ricercate

Solo (Multi) Print format: playing score
Composer: Aurelio Virgiliano flourished: 1600
Italian: RenaissanceNothing is known of Virgiliano, except for his manuscript treatise IL Dolcimelo, which has tables of divisions, and some solo ricercari.

5 Chansons of the mid-sixteenth century

4 part (SATB) Print format: score
Composer: Various flourished: unspecified
nationality unspecified: era unspecifiedContains Ung gay bergier, Frais et gaillard and other popular chansons.

Divisions on Chansons I

Solo + continuo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: RenaissanceContains decorated versions of Ung gay bergier, Frais et gaillard and other chansons. Bassano’s divisions, are particularly good.

5 Madrigals

4 part (SATB) Print format: score
Composer: Cipriano de Rore flourished: 1550
Flemish:

Including

1. Ancor che col partire
2. Ben qui si mostra’l l ciel
3. Come havran fin
4. Non gemme, non fin oro
5. Qual e piu grand’o Amore

Includes the classic Ancor che col partire and Non gemme, non fin oro.

Madrigali da sonar con la viola bastarda

Solo + continuo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: Renaissance

Including

1. Ancor che col partire
2. Ben qui si mostra’l l ciel
3. Come havran fin
4. Non gemme, non fin oro
5. Qual e piu grand’o Amore

The viola bastarda was a style of improvisation that would decorate different parts of a model in turn, rather than sticking to one part.

2 Chansons

5 part (SATTB) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon flourished: 1540
Franco-Flemish: Renaissance

Including

1. Content ou non
2. Oncques amours

Includes the lovely Oncques Amours, which was the subject of one of Bassano’s finest diminutions.

Divisions on Chansons II

Solo + continuo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: RenaissanceThis volume contains divisions on two chansons by Thomas Crecquillon. Bassano’s version of Oncues amouts is particularly fine.

3 Chansons of the mid 16th century

4 part (SATB) Print format: score
Composer: Various flourished: unspecified
nationality unspecified: era unspecified

Including

1. Martin menoit son pourceau
2. Doulce memoire

Contains Douce memoire, Petit Jacquet and other popular chansons.

Canzoni da sonar con la viola bastarda

Solo + continuo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: Renaissance

Including

1. Ung gay bergier
2. Doulce memoire
3. Mais languiray je
4. Martin menooit son porceau
5. Petit Jacquet

This volume contains viola bastarda settings of well-known chansons, including Douce memoire and Ung gay bergier.

Susanne ung jour

5 part (SATTB) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Roland de Lassus flourished: 1570
Franco-Flemish: RenaissanceThis is the piece of its day that was most imitated and reworked. Lassus himself composed a mass on it.

Divisions on Susanne ung jour

Solo + continuo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: RenaissanceDivsions of Lassus’ famous chanson. The setting by Bassano is particularly fine.

Viola bastarda settings

Solo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Richardo Rognoni flourished: 1590
Italian: Early Baorue

Including

1. Ancor che partire
2. Ung gay bergier

Richard Rogni’s diminution treatise of 1591 is a hugh leap forward from the Dalla Casa book of 1584.

8 ricercari

Solo (Solo) Print format: score
Composer: Giovanni Bassano flourished: 1600
Italian: RenaissanceBassano’s ricercars are almost the only surviving pieces of their kind for a solo instruments. They are highly focused, clearly the work of a gifted composer.

Divisions on Ancor che col partire

Solo (Solo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Giovanni Bassano flourished: 1600
Italian: RenaissanceThis volume contains 7 different decorated versions of Cipriano de Rore’s famous madrigal.

A la dolce ombra (original)

4 part (SATB) Print format: score
Composer: Cipriano de Rore flourished: 1550
Flemish:A setting of a Petrarch poem in six sections.

A la dolce ombra (decorated)

4 part (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: RenaissanceIn this piece all 4 parts of the original are decorated.

Vestiva

5 part (SATTB) Print format: score
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina flourished: 1560
Italian: RenaissancePalestrina’s Vestiva colli was one of the most widely admired pieces of its time, and the subject of many reworkings.

Vestiva i colli settings

Solo + continuo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: RenaissanceThis volume contains settings by Bassano, Dalla Casa and Bartolomeo Selma e Salaverde of Palestrina’s famous madirgal.

4 Madrigals

4 part (SATB) Print format: score
Composer: Cipriano de Rore flourished: 1550
Flemish:

Including

1. Charita di signore
2. Lo canterei d’amor
3. Non gemme, non fin oro
4. Signor mio caro

Includes Signor mio caro and Io canterei d’amor, two of Rore’s most popular madrigals.

Divisions on Madrigals I

Solo + continuo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Girolamo Dalla Casa flourished: 1580
Italian: Renaissance

Including

1. Charita di signore
2. Lo canterei d’amor
3. Non gemme, non fin oro
4. Signor mio caro

Contains decorated versions of Rore’s Signor mio caro and Io canterei d’Anmor.

Viola bastarda settings

Solo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Francesco Rognoni flourished: 1610
Italian: Early BaorueFrancesco Rognoni, the son of Richardo Rogniono, published a treatise on ornamentation in 1620, which included these rather spectacular examples for viola bastarda.

Io son ferito

5 part (S + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina flourished: 1560
Italian: RenaissancePalestrina’s Io son ferito was one of the most admired pieces of its time, and the subject of many reworkings.

Divisions on Io son ferito

Solo (Solo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Giovanni Bassano flourished: 1600
Italian: RenaissanceThis volume contains several different elaborated versions of Palestrina’s famous madrigal.

Alcune opere di diversi Auttori (1626) volume I

Solo (Viol) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Vicenzo Bonizzi flourished: 1630
Italian: Early BaroqueBonizzi’s 1626 collection contains highly elaborate viola bastarda versions of well-known pieces such as Douce memore.

Alcune opere di diversi Auttori (1626) volume II

(Viol) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Vicenzo Bonizzi flourished: 1630
Italian: Early BaroqueBonizzi’s 1626 collection contains highly elaborate viola bastarda versions of well-known pieces such as Douce memore.

Canzon super Susanna

Solo (SATB) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Ippolito flourished: 1600
Italian: RenaissanceA remarkable canzon da sonar based on the famous song, with interesting divisions, in all 4 parts.

Canzon La Porcia

Solo (Solo + Continuo) Print format: score + parts
Composer: Francesco Rognoni flourished: 1610
Italian: Early BaorueFrancesco Rognoni, the son of Richardo Rogniono, published a treatise on ornamentation in 1620, which included these rather spectacular examples for viola bastarda.