Madrigali A Cinque Voci Del Venosa Libro Qvarto Nouamente Risſtampato ... Basso. [Bass part only]
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- Venetia: Appreſſo Angelo Gardano, & Fratelli, 1611
Venetia: Appreſſo Angelo Gardano, & Fratelli, 1611. Small quarto. Early stencilled wrappers. 1f. (recto title within decorative woodcut border, verso dedication to Sig. Mio Osservandissimo), 21, [i] ("Tavola delli Madrigali") pp. With music typeset in diamond-head notation. Decorative and historiated woodcut initials throughout.
With large woodcut printer's device to title incorporating a bear, lion, and motto in Latin.
"Don Vincentio Rosso" in contemporary manuscript to blank foot of title. Modern bookplate with initials "g b" with stylized illustration of a bird and water to verso of upper wrapper.
Small tear to inner margin of upper wrapper. Slightly worn; uniform light browning; signatures detached; lower outer corners dampstained; upper margins slightly trimmed, just touching headlines in a few cases; occasional staining; first leaf reinforced with early paper to outer margin, small tear to inner margin with early tape repair to verso; dedication and conjugate leaf reinforced with narrow strip of early paper to gutter; small tear to inner margin of first page of music repaired with archival tape. Second edition, second issue. Agee p. 338. OPAC SBN ITICCUMUS152614. RISM G1737 (no complete copies in the U.S.).
Following the notoriety generated by the Italian nobleman and composer's "double aristocratic murder" of his first wife and her lover, "[Gesualdo's] passionate dedication to music, which until then had been cultivated in semi-secrecy (his first book of madrigals was originally published under the name of Gioseppe Pilonij), also became renowned." Lorenzo Bianconi, revised by Glenn Watkins in Grove Music Online.
With large woodcut printer's device to title incorporating a bear, lion, and motto in Latin.
"Don Vincentio Rosso" in contemporary manuscript to blank foot of title. Modern bookplate with initials "g b" with stylized illustration of a bird and water to verso of upper wrapper.
Small tear to inner margin of upper wrapper. Slightly worn; uniform light browning; signatures detached; lower outer corners dampstained; upper margins slightly trimmed, just touching headlines in a few cases; occasional staining; first leaf reinforced with early paper to outer margin, small tear to inner margin with early tape repair to verso; dedication and conjugate leaf reinforced with narrow strip of early paper to gutter; small tear to inner margin of first page of music repaired with archival tape. Second edition, second issue. Agee p. 338. OPAC SBN ITICCUMUS152614. RISM G1737 (no complete copies in the U.S.).
Following the notoriety generated by the Italian nobleman and composer's "double aristocratic murder" of his first wife and her lover, "[Gesualdo's] passionate dedication to music, which until then had been cultivated in semi-secrecy (his first book of madrigals was originally published under the name of Gioseppe Pilonij), also became renowned." Lorenzo Bianconi, revised by Glenn Watkins in Grove Music Online.