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Luzzasco Luzzaschi. Complete Unaccompanied Madrigals. Edited by Anthony Newcomb. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2003-4. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 136, 139.) [Pt. 1, Quinto libro de' madrigali a cinque voci (Ferrara, 1595); Sesto libro de' madrigali a cinque voci (Ferrara, 1596); Settimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1604): Abbrevs. and sigla, p. viii; acknowledgments, p. ix; introd., p. xi-xxii; texts, trans., and commentary, p. xxiii-lviii; 7 plates; score (including transcriptions and trans. of dedications), 136 p.; crit. report, p. 137-45; appendix, p. 147-84. ISBN 0-89579-535-3. $93. Pt. 2, Il quarto libro de' madrigali a cinque voci (Ferrara, 1594) and Madrigals Published Only in Anthologies, 1583-1604: Abbrevs. and sigla, p. vii; acknowledgments, p. viii; introd., p. ix-xviii; texts, trans., and commentary, p. xix-xli; 4 plates; score (including transcription and trans. of dedication), 116 p.; crit. report, p. 117-23; appendix, p. 125-63. ISBN 0-89579-558-2. $76.] Appendix to pt. 1 includes settings of Ecco, o dolce, o gradita (by Alessandro Striggio, Pomponio Nenna); Se parti io moro (by Giuseppe Palazzotto e Tagliavia); Puo ben fortuna (by Paolo Bellasio); O sei geloso Amante (by Antonio Il Verso); Sorge la vagh'aurora (by Scipione Lacorcia); Cor mio, benche lontana (by Ruggiero Giovannelli); and Questa vostra pietate (by Giovanni de Macque, Giovanni Del Turco). Appendix to pt. 2 includes settings of Tra le dolcezze (by Scipione Lacorcia); Mentre la notte (by Paolo Virchi, Filippo di Monte); Io v'amo [t'amo], anima mia (by Bernardino Bertolotti, Scipione Lacorcia); and Dolorosi martir (by Alessandro Striggio, Giovanni Maria Nanino, Francesco Soriano).
In the half century since the publication of Alfred Einstein's The Italian Madrigal (3 vols., trans. by Alexander H. Krappe, Roger H. Sessions, and Oliver Strunk [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949; reprint 1971]), the complete works of most of the principal madrigal composers of the late sixteenth century have become available in modern editions. Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1544/5-1607) has until now been a glaring exception. When finished, Anthony Newcomb's edition of Luzzaschi's complete unaccompanied madrigals for the series Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance will fill a major lacuna in the field and make available for the first time a body of works that played a crucial role in the musical culture...
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