Quando ’l pianeta che distingue l’ore

Title: 
Quando ’l pianeta che distingue l’ore
Poem Number: 
9
Text incipit: 
Quando ’l pianeta che distingue l’ore
Composer: 
Francesco Menta (c.1540-fl.1560-70)

Other Composers who set same text:

Musical Genre/Form: 
madrigal
Poetic Genre/Form: 
sonnet
Year of Printing: 
1564
Collection: 
Il primo libro de Madrigali a cinque voci
Frontispiece Data 1st Ed.: 

“Il primo libro de Madrigali a cinque voci, nuovamente da lui composto, et per Antonio Gardano stampato et dato in luce. A cinque voci. In Venetia appresso di Antonio Gardano. 1564.” (5 partbooks, 8° obl. of 29pp.; dedicated to Don Carlo de la Noia, Brussels, 1564)

Manuscript: 
N/A
RISM ID/AN: 
A/I M 2277
Vogel Number: 
[Menta] 1808
Scoring/Performance Forces: 
5 voices: CATB5
Libraries/Archives with Original Materials: 
1564 (Gardano): I-VEaf (CA5); I-Bc (T).
Bibliography: 
  • Grove – MGG – RISM – DEUMM – Vogel
  • Culcasi, Carlo. Il Petrarca e la Musica. Florence: Bemporad, 1911. 140.
  • 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]
Discography: 
N/A

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