Research in Musicology
Monumenta Musica Europea
General Editor Fulvia Morabito
This series aims to collect the critical edition of music particularly important in the european environment, and by drawing geographical, and for their unique cultural significance.
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Forthcoming
Vol. ii/1: Florence, BNC, Panciatichi 27: Text and Context
edited by Gioia Filocamo, translated by Bonnie J. Blackburn, Turnhout, Brepols.
704 p., 230 x 310 mm, 2010, Hardback
ISBN 978-2-503-51518-2
The volume comprises a complete edition of the large manuscript Panciatichi 27, compiled at the beginning of the sixteenth century: 185 compositions (parts of masses, motets, Magnificat sections, litanies, lamentations, dances, instrumental pieces, frottole, laude, chansons, etc.). Nearly one-third of the compositions have Italian texts. The introduction takes into account the complex relationships with some 600 concordant sources, both poetic and musical, manuscript and print. Some compositions are closely related to printed sources of the early sixteenth century: several pieces were copied from publications by Petrucci and the Canzoni nove of Antico (1510), which helps in dating the manuscript. The work of a single scribe (apart from two pieces), the manuscript was evidently compiled for practical purposes, as is evident from the small format, the absence of decorative elements, erasures and corrections, alternative readings, duplications of parts of the texts, and the intriguing presence of arabic numbers at the ends of many pieces, related to the number of semibreves in the composition or its parts. It has been suggested that Panciatichi 27 was copied in northern Italy (Mantua or Ferrara); further evidence — in particular a repertorial connection with Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, MS 2° 142a — points to Mantua. The commentary on each composition includes a complete list of concordances (many newly discovered) with bibliographical references and an evaluation of the relationships with concordant sources.
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Vol. iii/2: Bernardo Pasquini, Le Cantate, edited by Alexandra Nigito, 2 vols., Turnhout, Brepols.
Vol. iv/1: Benedetto Marcello, L’Estro Poetico-Armonico, edited by Andrea Coen and Maria Antonietta Cancellaro, 2 vols., Turnhout, Brepols
Published Volumes
Vol. iii/1: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. Sei Concerti Armonici
edited by Albert Dunning,Turnhout, Brepols, 2003.
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Vol. ii/2: Mogens Perdersøn (Magno Petreo), Madrigali e madrigalettiedited by Kitti Messina, Turnhout, Brepols, 2005.
CXIII+214 p., 230 x 290 mm, 2005, Hardback
ISBN 978-2-503-51801-5, EUR 100.00
This publication offers a critical edition of all the secular works of the Danish composer Mogens Pedersøn (1585?-1623?), together with a historical-critical introduction, diplomatic and diplomatic-interpretative editions of the poetic texts and three appendixes.
The following themes are examined in the introduction: the biography and personality of King Christian IV of Denmark, Pedersøn’s patron; the splendid musical life at the Danish court in the late 16th and early 17th centuries; and the life and works of Pedersøn himself, with particular regard to his relations with the Venetian environment — and specifically with the school of Giovanni Gabrieli where he trained. A further useful tool for further research is a table of the works of composers who set the same texts as Pedersøn.
The introduction is followed by a double edition of the various texts set to music: first a conservative edition respecting the graphic conventions of the period, aimed at presenting the text just as it is transmitted by the early sources; then the edition adopted in the score, in which the text is normalized to conform to current orthographic usage. There follows a critical edition of the music of Pedersøn’s 31 five-voice madrigals and 2 three-voice madrigaletti.
The appendixes contain editions of the texts and music of works by Hans Nielsen, Francesco Di Gregorii and Amante Franzoni set to the same poetic texts used by Pedersøn.
Review:
"(...) readers might value this publication for its excellent and detailed presentation of the madrigal texts." (P. Hauge in: Danish Yearbook of Musicology, 33, 2005)
"The result is a welcome contribution that positions Danish court music as a musical monument of European stature." (S. L. Hammond in: Scandinavian Studies, 78.3, Fall 2006, p.355-357)
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