Siette milagros - Portinaro, Francesco

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"Published by Scotto, Venice, 1566. The poem enumerates the seven wonders of the ancient world, but goes on to suggest that all of them are outshone by Ana d'Aragona (most likely the second wife of Vespasiano Gonzaga, with whose family Portinaro had connections - and who was quite possibly the author of this text), explaining why this composer was setting a Spanish text and publishing it in Venice as part of a set of Italian-texted madrigals. The text, somewhat garbled in the source, has been to some extent amended on the basis of this hypothesis."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre / Form → Madrigals

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/1

♬ Voicing → SATTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – E5

¶ Language → Spanish

Measures 77

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 7

CPDL # 75223

Editor Mick Swithinbank

Posted 2023-09-05

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Canto (G2)

D4 – E5

Alto (C2)

B3 – A4

Tenore (C3)

D3 – F#4

Quinto (C3)

D3 – F#4

Basso (F3)

G2 – B3

¶Lyrics / Text

Siete milagros dexò el art' humana al mundo: las Piramidas gastosas, la torre Pharia y el templo de Diana y las d'Artemisia obras gloriosas, los muros de Semiramis ufana, las Rodia y Olimpia imagines famosas, mas l'octav' Ana d'Aragona veo, os de natur' obr' alt' hermos' y aseo.