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Musica spirituale, libro primo (Venice, 1563).(Book Review)

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| December 01, 2004 | Stoycos, Sarah M. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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