Robert Fayrfax (23 aprile 1464 - 1521): Most clere of colour per 3 voci a cappella. The Hilliard Ensemble.
Most clere of colour and rote of stedfastness,
With vertu connyng her maner is lede,
Which that passyth my mynde for to express
Of her bounte, beaute and womanhode;
The bryghtest myrrour and floure of goodlyhed,
Which that all men knowith, both more and less;
Thes vertues byn pryntyd in her doutless.
Many sighs about nothing
Thomas Augustine Arne (1710 - 1778): Sigh no more, ladies, dalle musiche di scena (1748) per Much ado about nothing di W. Shakespeare (atto II, scena 3a).
– Versione per voce solista e orchestra d’archi: Alexander Young, tenore; Martin Isepp, clavicembalo; Wiener Rundfunkorchester, dir. Brian Priestman.
– Versione per 3 voci virili (TTB) a cappella: The Hilliard Ensemble.
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and merry,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey down derry.
Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leavy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and merry,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey down derry.
Josquin des Prez (c1450 - 1521): Missa Hercules dux Ferrarie a 4 voci (pubblicata nel 1505); dedicata a Ercole I d’Este, duca di Ferrara. The Hilliard Ensemble, dir. Paul Hillier.
Questa messa è ricordata come il primo (e il più celebre) esempio di composizione su soggetto cavato : Josquin ne ha ottenuto il tema principale associando il nome di una nota della solmisazione guidoniana a ciascuna delle vocali comprese nel titolo/dedica:
HEr–cU–lEs dUx FEr–rA–rI–E = rE–Ut–rE–Ut–rE–fA–mI–rE.
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