Occhi miei lassi
Title:
Occhi miei lassi
Poem Number:
14
Text incipit:
Occhi miei lassi, mentre ch’io vi giro
Composer:
Jacques Arcadelt (1507?-1568)
Other Composers who set same text:
Musical Genre/Form:
madrigal
Poetic Genre/Form:
sonnet
Year of Printing:
1565
Collection:
Il Primo Libro de Madrigali a quatro
Frontispiece Data 1st Ed.:
“Il Primo Libro de i Madrigali d’Archadelt a / quatro con nuova gionta impressi. In Venetia nella stampa d’Antonio Gardane ne l’anno del Signore M.D.XXXIX Nel Mese di Mazo” (4 part-books, 8° obl. of 53pp.; dedicated to Monsignore Leone Orsino, Venice, May 1539)
Manuscript:
N/A
RISM ID/AN:
B/I 1539-22; Reprints B/I 1544-15; B/I 1546-16; B/I 1556-24; B/I 1558-14; B/I 1561-12; B/I 1570-22; B/I 1585-20; B/I 1601-9
Vogel Number:
[Archadelt] 98-118, 120-128, 130-134, 136-144, 149
Scoring/Performance Forces:
4 voices: CATB
Libraries/Archives with Original Materials:
Selection of complete copies:
1539 (Gardano): D-Mbs (compl.); I-Vnm (ATB)
1541 (Gardano): A-Wn (compl.); GB-Lbm (compl.); I-Bc (A)
1544 (Scotto): I-Fc (compl)
1546: GB-Lbm (compl.)
1566 (Scotto): I-Bc (compl.)
1558 (Gardano): D-Mbs (compl.)
1561 (Scotto): GB-Och (compl.)
1570 (Scotto): D-W (compl.)
1585 (Amadino): E-V (compl.); GB-Och (CAB); GB-Lcm (T)
1601 (Vincenti): D-LEm (compl.); US-Su (compl.); US-Wc (prov. Landau) (compl.)
Modern Editions:
Johannes Arcadelt: Opera omnia, ed. A. Seay, CMM, xxxi/1–10 (1965–71), Vol. II
http://digirep.rhul.ac.uk/items/488d17f5-2180-bfcd-6254-54e2e9aaca8f/1/
Bibliography:
Grove – MGG – RISM – DEUMM – Einstein – Nuovo Vogel
Bridges T. W. The Publishing of Arcadelt’s First Book of Madrigals. Diss., Harvard U., 1982
Chegai, Andrea and Cecilia Luzzi, Petrarca in musica. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi VII centenario della nascita di Francesco Petrarca. Arezzo, 18-20 marzo 2004. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2005.
Culcasi, Carlo. Il Petrarca e la Musica. Florence: Bemporad, 1911. 135-186.
Lewis, Mary S. Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer 1538–1569: a Descriptive Bibliography and Historical Study. New York, 1988–97 [incl. catalogue of music editions]
