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Medieval Music Database

Cum altre ucele for del dolce nido

anonymous madrigal

Sources

Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rossi 215, fol. 20v-21 (2/2).

Facsimiles

1. GENNRICH, Friedrich. Abriss der Mensuralnotation des XIV und der ersten Hälfte des XV Jahrhunderts, Nieder-Modau: 1948. Musikwissenschaftliche Studienbibliothek 3-4, p. 68.
2. Il canzoniere musicale del codice vaticano Rossi 215 con uno studio sulla melica italiana del Trecento, facsimile edition by Giuseppe Vecchi, Bologna: Università degli studi di Bologna, 1966. Monumenta lyrica medii aevi italica, III/2.
3. Il Codice Rossi, edited by Nino PIRROTTA, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. Die mittelalterliche Mehrstimmigkeit, edited by Heinrich Husmann, Cologne: Arno Volk Verlag, 1954. Das Musikwerk IX. [English edition as Medieval Polyphony, Anthology of Music IX, 1962], p. 42.
2. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1960. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/II, p. 40.
3. Italian Secular Music: Anonymous Madrigals and Cacce and the Works of Niccolò da Perugia, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1972. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VIII, p. 13.

Text Editions<

1. LI GOTTI, Ettore. 'Poesie musicali italiane del sec. XIV', Estratto dagli Atti della Reale Accademia di scienze, lettere e arti di Palermo, Ser. IV, IV/2, 1944 (1945), p. 39.
2. SESINI, Ugo. 'Il canzoniero musicale trecentesco del cod. Vat. Rossiano 215', Studi medievali (N.S.), XVI (1943-1950), p. 230.
3. CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 329.

Literature

1. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Drei unbekannte Werke von Jacopo da Bologna und Bartolino da Padua?', Miscelánea en Homenaje a Monsenor Higinio Anglès, Barcelona: 1958-1961, vol. 1, p. 274.
2. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'On the technique, origin and evolution of Italian Trecento music', Musical Quarterly, XLVII (1961), pp. 41, 45.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Das Ende der Ars Nova', Die Musikforschung, XVI (1963), p. 110.
4. TOGUCHI, Kosaku. 'Studio sul Codice Rossiano 215 della biblioteca vaticana, intorno al sistema della sua notazione musicale', Annuario dell instituto giapponese di cultura, I (Rome, 1963), p. 178.
5. MARTINEZ, Marie L. Die Musik des frühen Trecento, Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1963. Münchener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 9.
6. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. 'Integrative devices in the music of the Italian Trecento', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo 1969, 1970, p. 422.
7. GALLO, F. A. 'Antonio da Ferrara, Lancillotto Anguissola e il madrigale trecentesco', Studi e Problemi di Critica Testuale, XII (1976), p. 45.
8. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.

Recordings

1. Musik aus dem Trecento, Silvia and Walter Frei: Fono. Ges. Luzern S 30-4703.
2. Every Delight and Fair Pleasure, Ian McDonald & Lloyd Fleming (1991): Move Move MD 3092.

Text

Cum altre ucele for del dolce nido.
d'amor cantando, vidi una calandra
uscir acesa come salamandra.

Tanto mi piacque il bel cantar di lei
l'ale batendo pur volando ad alto.
ch'Amor si mosse cum pietoso arsalto

ver mi, dicendo: - Pur speta che cale
chT a l'umbra ti far= star de so ale. -

Translation

I saw a skylark, coming with other birds
out of her sweet nest, singing about love.
and all enflamed by it like a salamander.

I liked so much her sweet singing, while she
was flapping her wings to fly upwards, that
Love's onslaught was not without compassion.

"Wait", he said, "for her to come down:
I will let you shelter under her wings."

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga



Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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