Leggiadre ninfe (Philippe de Monte)
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- Editor: Joseph Svendsen (submitted 2014-08-22). Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 148 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2010-12-15). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 373 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Leggiadre ninfe
Composer: Philippe de Monte
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1569 in Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 17
2nd published: 1583 in Musica divina di 19 autori illustri, no. 51
Description: Transcribed from the "Musica Divina di XIX autori illustri a IIII. V. VI et VII voci, nuovamente raccolta da Pietro Phalesio et data in luce in Anversa - 1588". The keys, time signatures, notes' values and accidentals are as in the original print. The C clefs are transposed to the G clef and to the modern Tenor clef. Se scire fili is a sacred contrafact of this work by Simone Molinaro, published in his Fatiche Spirituali of 1610.
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Original text and translations
Italian textLeggiadre ninfe e pargolett’amori |
German translationAnmutige Nymphen und kindliche Amoren, |
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