Era il giorno ch’al sol si scoloraro

Title: 
Era il giorno ch’al sol si scoloraro
Poem Number: 
3
Text incipit: 
Era il giorno ch’al sol si scoloraro
Composer: 
Francesco Portinaro (c.1520-after1577)
Musical Genre/Form: 
madrigal
Poetic Genre/Form: 
sonnet
Year of Printing: 
1550
Collection: 
Primo Libro de Madrigali a cinque voci
Frontispiece Data 1st Ed.: 

“Da Francesco Portinaro il Primo Libro de Madrigali a cinque voci. In Venetia appresso di Antonio Gardane. 1554” (5 partbooks, 8° obl. of 29pp.; dedicated to Monsignor Torquato Bembo)

Manuscript: 
N/A
RISM ID/AN: 
A/I P 5224
Vogel Number: 
[Portinaro] 2250
Scoring/Performance Forces: 
5 voices: CAT5B
Libraries/Archives with Original Materials: 
1550 (Gardano): I-Bc (compl.); I-VEaf (compl.); I-Nn (A); GB-Lbm: (T).
Bibliography: 
  • Grove – MGG – RISM – DEUMM – Nuovo Vogel
  • Culcasi, Carlo. Il Petrarca e la Musica. Florence: Bemporad, 1911. 140.
  • Archetto, M. A. Francesco Portinaro and the academics of the Veneto in the sixteenth century. Diss., U. of Rochester, 1991
  • 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]

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