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Ogelletto silvagio per stagione
canonic madrigal by Jacopo da Bologna

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 13v (3/2); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 72v-73 (3/2); San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 15v-16;
Padua: Biblioteca Universitaria 658, fol. 1 (Ritornello only);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 43v-44 (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 8v-9 (3/2).

Facsimiles

1. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. Fourteenth-Century Italian Cacce, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, plates VIa,b (Pn568).
2. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 134 (FP).
3. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965], Vol. III, p. 101 (Fl87).
2. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. Fourteenth-Century Italian Cacce, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 96 (Fl87).
3. The Music of Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Berkeley: University of California, 1954. University of California Publications in Music 5, p. 111 (Fl87).
4. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 27.
5. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1963. Corpus Mensurablis Musicae 8/IV, p. 35.
6. 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. 122.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 42.

Literature

1. BRUNAMONTI, L. Tarulli. 'Una scuola di canto a Perugia nella prima metà del sec. XIV', Bollettino della regia deputazione di storia patria per l'Umbria, XXVII (1924): 339-392.
2. FELLIN, Eugene C. A Study of Superius Variants in the Sources of Italian Trecento Music: Madrigals and Cacce, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1970, passim.
3. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.
4. BAUMANN, Dorothea. Die dreistimmige italienische Lied-Satztechnik im Trecento, Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1979. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlung no. 64, passim.
5. D'ACCONE, Frank. 'Una nuova fonte dell' "Ars nova" italiana: il codice di San Lorenzo, 2111', Studi Musicali, XIII (1984): 3-31.
6. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.

Recordings

1. Jacopo da Bologna: Italienische Madrigale des 14. Jahrhunderts, P.A.N. Ensemble Project Ars Nova (1985): Harmonia Mundi HM 738A.
2. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century, directed by John Griffiths and John Stinson (1987): Move MC 3091.

Text

Oselletto selvagio per stagione
dolci versetti canta con bel modo:
tal e tal grida forte, ch'i' non lodo.

Per gridar forte non si canta bene.
ma con soav'e dolce melodia
si fa bel canto e ci= vuol maestria.

Pochi l'hanno e tutti si fan maestri.
fan ballate madrial'e motetti
tutt'en Fioran, Filippotti e Marchetti.

S8 F piena la terra di magistroli.
che loco pi· non trovano discepoli.

Translation

A woodbird in season
sings sweet verses in elegant style:
but such and such squawk so loud I cannot praise them.

By squawking loudly one cannot sing well.
but with sweet and charming melody
one can make a beautiful song, and this requires mastery.

Few possess it, yet they all claim to be masters.
composing ballads, madrigals and motets.
they are all Florians, Filippottos and Marchettos.

The land is so filled with little masters
that there is no room for disciples.
Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

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

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