The Madrigal

A Research and Information Guide

Susan Lewis Hammond

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781135966997
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Categoria: Teoría y apreciación musicales

The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition, production, and consumption. It contains 1, 237 entries for items in English, French, German, and Italian. Scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and performers now have access to this rich literature in a single volume.

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General Reference

The madrigal receives judicious treatment in all standard reference bibliographies and literature. The second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Grove Music Online are invaluable tools that offer quick access to biographies and recent literature on the madrigal and its composers. The work of pioneer bibliographers Robert Eitner and Emil Vogel, combined with the international RISM series, remains the main conduits for locating primary sources of madrigal prints. A huge expansion in online research databases now makes it possible to search major collections of madrigal books and manuscripts online.

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND RESEARCH GUIDES

• 1. Basso, Alberto, ed. Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1983-90. Pt. 1: Il lessico (subject), 4 vols. Pt. 2: Le biografie (biographical), 9 vols. ISBN 8802037329. ML100.D6 1983.
• The standard reference work in the Italian language, with approximately 37,000 signed entries. Like MGG² it is divided into subject and biographical entries. Part 2 (biographical) includes work-lists that, for major composers such as Luca Marenzio, list contents by madrigal book, rather than alphabetically by first line as in GMo. For more complete bibliographies, consult GMo. The last volume (vol. 13, Appendice ) is a biographical supplement.
• 2. Eitner, Robert. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Quellen-Lexicon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten der christlichen Zeitrechnung bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. 2nd ed. in 11 vols. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1959. ML105.E4 1959. Based on Eitner’s monumental Biographisch-Bibliographisches Quellen-Lexicon (Leipzig, 1898-1904; reprint New York: Musurgia, 1947). Though largely superseded by RISM , it remains useful for biographical information on early composers.
• 3. Finscher, Ludwig, ed. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2nd ed. 28 vols. in 2 parts. Sachteil, 9 vols. Personenteil, 17 vols. Kassel, Germany: Bärenreiter, 1994-2008. ISBN 3761811004. ML100.M92 1994. [MGG² ] A substantial update and revision of the first edition (ed. Friedrich Blume, 17 vols. [Kassel, Germany: Bärenreiter, 1949-86]). Entries for madrigal, canzonetta, and villanella in the subject encyclopedia are authored by James Haar, Ruth I. DeFord, and Donna G. Cardamone, respectively, and follow the structure of the authors’ corresponding entries in GMo. Haar’s extensive bibliography is an excellent resource for locating modern editions and secondary literature up to 1996. Cardamone’s entry on the villanella includes an extensive short-title list of villanella anthologies (from RISM B/I, 1504⁴ to RISM B/I, 1577⁸ ) and a list of modern editions. The biographical encyclopedia includes entries for composers of madrigals with bibliographies often more up to date than the corresponding entries in GMo.
• 4. Ghisalberti, Alberto M., ed. Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 1960-. A-M= 73 vols. up to 2009. CT1123.D5 Biog. Indispensable tool for scholars of Italian history, culture, literature, art, and music. Entries for poets and composers include detailed biographies, notes on modern editions, and extensive bibliographies.
• 5. Pendle, Karin. Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge, 2005. xv, 706p. (Routledge Music Bibliographies). ISBN 041594354X. ML128.W7P46. Mammoth annotated bibliography of research on women’s roles and accomplishments in music. Includes 2,949 entries with a focus on materials from the years 1980-2000. Relevant entries can be found in subsections on the early modern period (nos. 708-50, pp. 179-88) and on Italy (nos. 1017-45, pp. 245-51).
• 6. Randel, Don Michael. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1996. x, 1013p. ISBN 0674372999. ML105.H38 1996. Handy, single-volume resource with capsule biographies of major and minor madrigalists. Summary works lists and bibliographies of major scholarship.
• 7. Root, Deane, ed. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com [GMo] Indispensable online resource that offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2nd ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. (2001), along with updates and revisions. Fifty thousand signed articles and 30,000 biographies. The search functions enable users to locate titles and first lines of madrigals across the dictionaries, a useful tool for finding parallel settings of a single text. As of October 2009, it is possible to limit a keyword search to a single article. Work-lists may include either a list of printed volumes or a detailed list of first lines of texts, at the author’s discretion. Bibliographies list research up to the mid- to late 1990s. Authored by specialists in the field, the entry for the madrigal is divided into the fourteenth century, the sixteenth century, the concerted madrigal, the English madrigal, and the madrigal outside Italy and England. The “Related Content” button provides users with links to entries for composers, scholars, genres, and concepts. The bibliography was last updated on April 19, 2004, and includes items dating from 1837 to 1997.
• 8. Sadie, Stanley, and John Tyrrell, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 29 vols. London: MacMillan, 2001. ISBN 1561592390. ML100.N48 2000. [NGM² ] The standard English-language reference work for all aspects of music research. The entry on the sixteenth-century madrigal (vol. 15, pp. 547-71) is divided into sections on Italy (James Haar and Anthony Newcomb), the concerted madrigal (Massimo Ossi and Nigel Fortune), the English madrigal (Joseph Kerman), and the madrigal outside Italy and England (Jerome Roche). Entries on the canzonetta (Ruth I. DeFord, vol. 5, pp. 79-82) and villanella (Donna G. Cardamone, vol. 26, pp. 628-31) provide summaries of related genres. Bibliography up to the mid-1990s. For an online version, see no. 7.
• 9. Slonimsky, Nicolas, ed. Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Centennial Edition , 6 vols. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001. ISBN 0028655257. ML105.B16 2000. Enlarged edition of Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians , 8th ed. (1992), now in six volumes with entries on jazz and popular music. Indexed by genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians. Capsule entries for major madrigal composers with summary works lists and brief bibliographies.
• 10. Vendrix, Philippe. Vocabulaire de la musique de la Renaissance. Paris: Minerve, 1994. 220p. (Musique ouverte). ISBN 2869310706. ML108. V46 1994. Dictionary of musical terms used in the Renaissance period. Quotes musicological scholarship to clarify terminology and its usage. Numerous illustrations, chronology of important musical works (1412-1607), bibliography of contemporary treatises and general studies, discography, and non-expansive index.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES OF PRIMARY SOURCES

• 11. Bianconi, Lorenzo. “Weitere Erganzungen zu Emil Vogels Bibliothek der gedruckten weltlichen Vocalmusik Italiens, aus den Jahren 1500-1700 aus italienischen Bibliotheken.” AnM 9 (1970): 142-202 and AnM 12 (1973): 370-97.
• Final supplement to no. 27. An inventory of madrigal and cantata prints found in Italian archives. Entries include a transcription of the title page and dedication, a list of contents, and notes on surviving sources.
• 12. Brown, Howard Mayer. Instrumental Music Printed before 1600: A Bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. 559p. ML128.I65 B77.
• Valuable reference bibliography that catalogs and describes all of the instrumental music published before 1600, including lists of lost volumes, theoretical treatises that deal wholly with instruments or with the music written for them, volumes of music for instruments and voices, and anthologies that contain some vocal music and some instrumental music. An important resource for tracking instrumental intabulations of madrigals. Indexes of libraries, notations, performing medium, names, and first lines and titles.
• 13. Eitner, Robert. Bibliographie derMusik-Sammelwerke desXVI. undXVII. Jahrhunderts. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms, 1963. 964p. ML114. E36 1963. (Reprint; originally published Berlin, 1877).
• The first comprehensive bibliography of music anthologies printed between 1501 and 1700. The first part arranges volumes chronologically, and includes the short title, format, description of front matter, names of composers and the number of their works included in the volume, and the location of the exemplar that Eitner examined. The second part is an alphabetical list of composers with the titles of pieces included in anthologies. Each line gives the text incipit, number of parts, date of publication, name of the compiler, and position in the volume. Though largely out of date, Eitner’s work remains important for its inclusion of entries for individual pieces in anthologies (information not included in RISM B/I ).
• 14. Hilmar, Elmar. “Weitere Erganzungen zu Emil Vogels Bibliothek der gedruckten weltlichen Vocalmusik Italiens, aus den Jahren 1500-1700.” AnM 4 (1967): 154-206 and AnM 5 (1968): 295-8.
• Supplements to Vogel’s bibliography of Italian secular vocal music prints (no. 12). Entries include a transcription of the title page and dedication, a list of contents, and notes on surviving sources. Includes many examples from US libraries.
• 15. Jackson, Barbara Garvey. “Say Can You Deny Me": A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th through the 18th Centuries. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994. xxi, 486p. ISBN 1557283036. ML128.W7J3 1994.
• Several sixteenth-century women composers are included in this comprehensive list of surviving music by women composers. Entries are arranged alphabetically by composer, and include the following: known library holdings for surviving copies of anthologies, single-author works, and manuscripts; works in modern editions or facsimiles; and references to secondary literature, catalogs, and bibliographies.
• 16. Lesure, Franfois. “Madrigaux italiens et sources poetiques.” RBM 32-3 (1978-9): 78-96.
• Supplments NV (no. 12) with the identification of authors of more than 400 poetic texts of Italian madrigals.
• 17. Lincoln, Harry B. The Italian Madrigal and Related Repertories: Indexes to Printed Collections, 1500-1600. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988. ix, 1139p. ISBN 0300036833. ML128.M2L56 1988.
• Massive thematic index of more than 9,000 Italian-texted madrigals and related forms found in sixteenth-century printed anthologies (defined, following RISM , as volumes with more than one composer represented). The main index is arranged by composer and includes melodic incipits for each surviving voice part. This is followed by an alphabetical index to first lines, a thematic locator (using numerical language designating intervals, such as +2 for a rising second), and an index of sources arranged by RISM number.
• 18. Mangani, Marco. Il repertorio vocaleprofano nelle raccolte a stampa del secolo XVII. Rome: Torre d’Orfeo, 1993. 125p. (Istituto di paleo-grafia musicale—roma, ser. 1, Studi e testi, 8; Bibliografia, 1). ISBN 8885147534. ML120.I8.
• Chronological list of seventeenth-century anthologies of secular vocal music. Entries include an alphabetical list of contents with text attributions where known. Index of first lines, composers, and poets.
• 19. Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio. Notitia de’ contrapuntisti e compositori di musica. Ed. Cesarino Ruini. Florence: Olschki, 1988. 1 + 389p. (Studi e testi per la storia della musica, 6). ISBN 8822235576. ML105.P55 1988.
• Over 1,000 entries on composers’ lives and works from Guido d’Arezzo to the 1730s, compiled by the Italian composer and writer on music, Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657-1744). Pitoni gathered his notes from title pages, dedications, music treatises, archives of musical institutions, tombstones, and personal correspondence. Though not always accurate, Pitoni’s Notitia is regarded as an early landmark in music lexicography and remains a useful source for tracking lost editions (see also no. 24). Index of names.
• 20. Répertoire international des sources musicales = International Inventory of Musical Sources = Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik. Munich: Henle; London: Novello; Kassel, Germany: Bärenreiter, 1960-. ML113. 16. [RISM]
• Monumental joint project of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries aimed at presenting a complete bibliography of musical works up to the year 1800. A list of series contents can be found on the website of the US RISM Office (http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/isham/rism.cfm#pubs). Volumes of particular importance to madrigal research include entry nos. 21-23 below.
• 21. RISM A/I. Einzeldrucke vor 1800. Ed. Ka...

Indice dei contenuti

• Front Cover
• Routledge Music Bibliographies
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• 1 General reference
• 2 General studies of the madrigal
• 3 Specialized studies of the madrigal
• 4 The madrigal outside Italy
• 5 Studies of related genres
• 6 Madrigal printers and publishers
• 7 Poetry and the madrigal
• 8 Patrons and collectors
• 9 Composers
• 10 Contemporaneous theorists, historians, and commentators
• 11 Iconography
• 12 Issues of performance
• Author index
• Subject index