'Le belle Nimfe, madrigali a sei voci', by Claude Le Jeune, Pietro Filippo, Andrea Gabrieli, Filippo de Monte, Giovanni Ferretti, Luca Marenzio, Giovanni della Croce, Peter Sweelinck, and other French and Italian composers. In 4 part-books; lacking the tenor and quintus parts.
Scope & Content:
'Le Belle Nimfe': a collection of Madrigals for 6 voices, made apparently at the beginning of the 17th century and evidently taken from works then engraved, especially from , which first appeared in 1583. The dates appended below are those of the first editions in which the Madrigals in question...