
| Girolamo Scotto, Il primo libro de i madrigali a doi voci (Girolamo Scotto, Venice 1541) | RISM: S2618 | |
| 55 duos, including Italian madrigals, Latin motets, and textless duos. The contents is not the same in all the reprints. |
Upper part-book: «CANTVS» Lower part-book: «TENOR» These rubrics are consistently found throughout the collection, but not on the title pages. |
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| reprints | ||||
| Girolamo Scotto, Il primo libro de li madrigali a doi voci nuovamente stampati et da lui proprio con nuova giunta ampliati (Girolamo Scotto, Venice 1551) | RISM: S2619 | |||
| Girolamo Scotto, Il primo libro delli madrigali a doi voci nuovamente ristampati et da lui proprio con nuova giunta ampliati (Girolamo Scotto, Venice 1558) | RISM: S2620 | |||
| Girolamo Scotto, Il primo libro delli madrigali a doi voci nuovamente ristampati et da lui proprio con nuova gionta ampliati et con ogni diligentia coretti. (Girolamo Scotto, Venice 1562) | RISM: — | |||
| Girolamo Scotto, Il primo libro de madrigali a due voci nuovamente ristampato. (Girolamo Scotto, Venice 1572) | RISM: S2621 | |||
| literature | ||||
| Bernstein, Scotto, p. 272-74, 428-29, 609-10, 892-93. | ||||
| Bornstein, Italian Duos, vol. I, p. 73-75; vol. II, p. 42-51. | A study of the Italian duo throughout the Renaissance and the Baroque. | |||
| Bornstein, «Madr Duos» | An article about early madrigalian duos published in Italy. | |||
| Bologna: Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Catalogo Gaspari online. | See the related record from the online database of this library. | |||
| notes |
The first edition (1541) contains the largest number of duos and is better edited than the following ones, because it has the most correct music and text. It includes all the madrigals but one – «Io vorrei pur fuggir, crudel Amore» – and all the motets. Otherwise, the six textless duos are included in 1558 only. The reprints are partial editions of the same material; there are a few mistakes in texts and music and the lyrics often have abbreviations. On the other hand, the texts in the first edition are not clearly set under the notes; in this respect only, the 1551 reprint is better. Even Scotto's third book of madrigals (1562) can be considered a reprint, because all its material was taken from this book.
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