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Musica spirituale, libro primo (Venice, 1563). Edited by Katherine Powers. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 127.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2001. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xxix; texts and trans., p. xxx-xxxvii; 3 plates; score, 151 p.; crit. report, p. 153-55. ISBN 0-89579-472-1. $80.]
Spiritual madrigals had been composed and published long before Venetian printer Girolamo Scotto issued Giovanni del Bene's anthology Musica spirituale, libro primo, di canzon et madrigali, a cinque voci in 1563, four years after Del Bene's death. Yet this was the first collection comprised exclusively of spiritual madrigals and the first ...