Title:
Solo et pensoso i più deserti campi
Text incipit:
Solo et pensoso i più deserti campi
Composer:
Marenzio, Luca (1553/4-1599)
Year of Printing:
1599; R 1601, 1608, 1609, 1609
Collection:
Il nono libro de madrigali a cinque voci
Frontispiece Data 1st Ed.:
“CANTO/DI LUCA MARENZIO/ IL NONO LIBRO DE MADRIGALI/ A CINQUE VOCI/ Novamente composto & dato in luce/ In Venetia, Appresso Angelo Gardano. 1599” (5 partbooks, 4° obl. of 21pp.; dedicated to Don Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duca di Mantova, Rome, 10 May 1599)
RISM ID/AN:
M 567 (Reprints: M568-571)
Scoring/Performance Forces:
Libraries/Archives with Original Materials:
1599 (Gardano): I-Bc (compl.); NL-DHgm (A).
1601 (Gardano): A-Wn (S, T, 5); D-As (compl.); D-Rp (S); F-Pn; GB-Lbm (5); I-Bc (T).
1608 (Raverii) : F-Pthibault (S); I-Bc (S, B), I-Rsc (S); I-VEcap (compl.); US-CA (B)
1609 (Gardano & frat.): F-Pc; I-Bc
1609 (Scotto): I-Bc
Modern Editions:
Luca Marenzio: Sämtliche Werke. Ed. Alfred Einstein, Publikationen älterer Musik, iv/1, vi.
Leipzig, 1929–31. [E i, ii]
Luca Marenzio: Opera omnia. Ed. B. Meier and R. Jackson, CMM, lxxii. 1976–2000. [MJ i–vii]
Luca Marenzio: The Complete Five Voice Madrigals. Ed. J. Steele. New York, 1996. [v]
Discography:
Cavina, Claudio, dir. Il Nono Libro di Madrigali. By Luca Marenzio. La Venexiana. Glossa
Music S. L., 1999 (GCD 920906)
Alexander Blachly, dir. The Mannerist Revolution. By Carlo Gesualdo, Claudio Monteverdi,
Giaches De Wert, Luca Marenzio. Pomerium Musices. Dorian, 1990 (DOR 90154)
Alfred Deller, dir. English, French, and Italian Madrigals. By Thomas Morley, Luca Marenzio, et
al. Deller Consort. Alfred Deller Complete Vanguard Recordings. Musical Concepts,
2009