'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.
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'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...
'Liquide perle, madrigali a cinque voci', by Luca Marenzio, Cornelius Verdoncq, Felice Anerio, Benedetto Pallavicino, Josefo Guami, Horatio Vecchi, Claude Le Jeune, Peter Sweelinck, and others. In 3 part-books; the altus and quintus volumes are wanting.
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'Liquide perle': a collection of Madrigals for 5 voices, without the words, by Benedetto Pallavicino and other composers of the end of the 16th century. Treble, tenor and bass parts. The dates appended below are those of the first editions in which the Madrigals in question are known to have bee...
Madrigals for three voices. French and Italian. In 3 part-books.
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Madrigals for 3 voices, in parts, without words, with index at beginning of vol. 3. The dates given below are those of the earliest editions in which they are known to have appeared; but the present parts were probably copied from later editions. No composers are named in the MS; but the names o...