Io mi rivolgo indietro a ciascun passo
Title:
Io mi rivolgo indietro a ciascun passo
Poem Number:
15
Text incipit:
Io mi rivolgo indietro a ciascun passo
Composer:
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562)
Other Composers who set same text:
Musical Genre/Form:
madrigal
Poetic Genre/Form:
sonnet
Year of Printing:
1559
Collection:
Musica Nova
Frontispiece Data 1st Ed.:
“Musica Nova di Adriano Vvillaert all'Illustrissimo et Eccellentissimo Signor Il Signor Donno Alfonso d'Este Prencipe di Ferrara.; verso: Con Gratia et Privilegio Della Illustrissima Signoria di Venetia, & di tutti li Prencipi Christiani, come ne i loro Priuilegi appare. / In Venetia appresso di Antonio Gardano. 1559.” (7 partbooks, in 4° of 118pp.; dedicated to Alfonso d’Este, Principe di Ferrara, Ferrara, 15 September 1558)
Manuscript:
N/A
RISM ID/AN:
A/I W-1126
Vogel Number:
[Willaert] 3001
Scoring/Performance Forces:
5 voices: CATB5
Libraries/Archives with Original Materials:
1559 (Gardano): I-A (compl.); I-Bc (compl.); D-Hs (compl.); D-Mbs (compl.); F-Pc (compl.);
F-Psg (compl.); GB-Lbm (compl.); I-TVc (CTB567); B-Br (CTB567); E-Bd (CAB567); GB-
Lcm (CAB56); I-VEaf (CTB567); I-Moe (CTB67); I-Rc (A5); I-Tn (A5); I-Vnm (TB); I-Pac
(C); I-VIb (C); E-Mn (C)
Modern Editions:
Adriani Willaert Opera omnia, ed. H. Zenck and others, CMM, iii/1– (Rome, 1950–) [ Zxiii]
Bibliography:
Grove – MGG – RISM – DEUMM – Einstein – Nuovo Vogel
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Discography:
Musica Nova – The Petrarca Madrigals. By Adrian Willaert. Singer Pur Vocal Ensemble. Oehms
Classics, 2009 (OC 814)
