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L’Amorosa Ero – score

Composer: Various Composers (16-17th C.)

Instrumentation: Viols AA/TTB, recorders, voices

Author/editor/arranger:

Publisher: PRB Productions

Format: Sheet music

Product code: VC064S

Tags: Viols, Voices, recorders

£42.00

Eighteen madrigal settings of a single madrigal text by an Italian nobleman, Marc'Antonio Martinengo, on the story of Hero and Leander. Martinengo set the text himself in 4 voices, then arranged for Lelio Bertani, maestro di cappella of Brescia Cathedral, to set it also. He then commissioned 16 more settings by such composers as Marenzio, Ferrabosco I (the only one to use five voices), Gastoldi and Merulo. All sets include fifth part. Text underlay in score and parts.

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