O magnanimo Duce - Ingegneri, Marco Antonio

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"This praises Alessandro Farnesse (1545-1592), Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro, and Philip II of Spain's principle general. He was the dedicatee of Ingegneri's ''Primo libro a sei voci.'' The author is unknown, but the fact it uses the informal second person singular pronouns and verb forms, instead of either the voi/vi/vostro formal, or the Lei formal of a vassal to a liege (the surviving formal in modern Italian), leads me to speculate the author was very high-ranking."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Madrigals

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 4/2

♬ Voicing → SATTTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – D5

¶ Language → Italian

Measures 49

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 7

CPDL # 82304

Editor Allen Garvin

Posted 2024-10-09

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial

♫Pitch Ranges

Canto

C4 – D5

Alto

F3 – A4

Quinto

C3 – F4

Sesto

C3 – F4

Tenore

B-2 – F4

Basso

F2 – B-3

¶Lyrics / Text

O magnanimo Duce: ecco pur hai quella gioia cui senza poco t'era piacevole Piacenza. Se tu gioisci, anch'io, che t'amo e colo, sento il tuo proprio affetto, e di tanto allegrezzo ho colmo il petto, che non bastando solo ad esprimerla fuor la voce mia: di più voci ne faccio un'armonia.