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S8 com' al canto della bella Yguana
madrigal by Piero

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 70v (2/2).

Facsimiles

Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 131.

Editions

1. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1960. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/II, p. 4.
2. Italian Secular Music by Magister Piero, Giovanni da Firenze and Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1967. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VI, p. 18.

Text Editions

1. CORSI, Giuseppe. Rimatori del Trecento, Turin: Unione tipografica editrice torinese, 1969, p. 1026.
2. CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 8.

Literature

1. LI GOTTI, Ettore. La poesia musicale italiana del secolo XIV, Palermo: Palumbo, 1944, p. 51.
2. MARTINEZ, Marie L. Die Musik des frühen Trecento, Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1963. Münchener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 9.
3. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. 'Integrative devices in the music of the Italian Trecento', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo 1969, 1970, p. 426.
4. WESSELY, O. 'Über den Hoquetus in der Musik zu Madrigalen des Trecento', De Ratione in Musica. Festschrift Erich Schenk zum 5. Mai 1972, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1975, p. 24.
5. PETROBELLI, Pierluigi. '"Un leggiadretto velo" ed altre cose petrarchesche', Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, X (1975), p. 36.
6. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Das Madrigal "Si come al canto della bella Iguana" von Magister Piero und Jacopo da Bologna", Festschrift H. H. Eggebrecht zum 65. Geburtstag, Stuttgart: Steiner, 1984, pp. 46-56.
7. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Ripetizioni di sillabe e parole nella musica profana italiana del Trecento e del primo Quattrocento', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 93-120.
8. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.

Recordings

Every Delight and Fair Pleasure, Lloyd Fleming and Geoffrey Cox, tenors, Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century, directed by John Griffiths and John Stinson (1991): Move MD 3092.

Text

S8 come al canto de la bella Iguana
obli= suo cammin pi· tempo el greco.
prendendo suo piacer con forma umana.

cos8 per esser, donna, sempre teco
faresti la mia voglia esser lontana
da ogn'altro piacer, sendo 'l tuo meco;

per= che se' d'ogni virtute unita.
tu se' perfetta gemma Margherita.

Translation

As Odysseus, enthralled by the song of the beautiful Circe.
forgot his journey for a long time.
taking his pleasure with her in human form.

So I would like, o woman, to be always with you.
If your pleasure were to be with me.
mine would turn away from every pleasure;

Because you, my perfect pearl.
are endowed with every virtue.

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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