Giulio Caccini - Amor, io parto - Montserrat Figueras

High resolution and stereo sound: www.youtube.com Giulio Caccini (1551--1618) Amor, io parto Madrigal for soprano voice, from "Le nuove musiche, 1601" set on an anonymous text In this recording: Montserrat Figueras, soprano Hopkinson Smith, baroque guitar Harmonia Mundi The score I used is from a facsimile copy of Caccini's Le Nuove Musiche, 1601. I didn't edit the score at all, except that I cleared the specks around it . Here and there, the text may not be so easy to read on the score. But, as always, I included the text in modern spelling and the translation. "Caccini's Le Nuove Musiche is a collection of works for solo voice and basso continuo. Caccini uses two distinct compositional styles in the collection: twelve "madrigals" -- through-composed, somewhat rhythmically-free compositions with rhapsodic passages designed to emphasise the important words in the text -- and ten "arias" which are shorter and usually strophic. ... The type of solo "madrigal" pioneered by Caccini is distinguished from the polyphonic madrigal which was the most popular form of secular composition during the late Renaissance." - Sheila Barnes "Madrigals are, according to Caccini's definition, through-composed one part pieces which are usually elaborately ornamented on non-strophic texts whose metric structure is irregular. ... One main theme dominates all of the poems upon which Caccini's Nuove Musiche is based: love. Two literary forms reflect the two aspects of love, the elegiac madrigal <b>...</b>
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