The Italian madrigal comedy experienced a relatively short, but exceedingly popular life during the late Renaissance. The works that may be called madrigal comedies, numbering less than two dozen in total, represent a type of musical entertainment that delighted audiences at courts and within the cultural academies of Renaissance Italy. The small subset of works within the genre, designated in this research project as "theatrical" madrigal comedies, showed an increasing focus on dramatic representation of text with music. These works, the plots of which derive from the commedia dell'arte tradition, may be seen as early forms of musical comedy and musical theater. Arguments concerning the manner in which the works were performed have centered on a debate for and against the staging of them.Because madrigal comedies have been largely neglected as concert and theatrical literature, there is little published to assist a director in finding the repertoire or to offer a guide to performance. The research project on which this document is based, along with the associated lecture-recital, resulted in the compilation of means to a successful madrigal comedy production. This was done by advocating historically informed performance decisions that are given a practical spin. In this manner, a director may put together a madrigal comedy production that is accessible to professionals and non-professionals, as well as secondary- and higher-education communities.

In the sixteenth century, because of the prosperous environment of commerce, the parpularity of printing was obvious. Moreover, the technique of the music printing was changed from multiple printing to one impression, and it made the music scores cheaper. The Italian madrigal of Florence and Rome were disseminated to Venice . A large number of madrigals printed in Venice. The main part of the thesis discuss the circumstances of publishing madrigal in Venice. The interaction among composer, assistance, patrons and the purchaser. The thesis consist of three main chapters, in addition to the introduction and conclusion. Chapter one exams the society and economic background, the music in relation to environment. The develop of printing industry and the transfermance of music printing technique in the sixteen century Venice will be explore as well. Chapter two focus on the process of madrigal expanded from Florence and Rome to Venice which is based on the informantion early madrigal manuscripts and a few printed score. Chapter three deal with the influences of the madrigal in the music publishing industry. The main contents focus on two music printing families who monopolized music publishing market in Venice, discussing the process of their madrigal score printing and locating the works. In addition the study will further discuss the business skill they used for selling madrigal, the customers who was willing to buy madrigal score and the route the printers selling the madrigal works, in order to demonstrate the importance of music printing to the prevalence of Italian madrigals.

Sigismondo D’India (1582 ?-1629 ?), contemporain de Claudio Monteverdi, est un compositeur parmi les plus importants du début du XVIIe siècle : l’un des pères fondateurs de la musique moderne. La présente thèse entend le situer dans un contexte qui nécessite d’être rappelé et mis à jour, celui de la cour de Turin où le musicien s’est établi de 1611 à 1623, période la plus fructueuse de sa carrière musicale dont l’étude s’organise autour de trois problématiques : la musique, le mécénat et l’identité nobiliaire.Il s’agit, dans un premier temps, d’étudier la circulation des musiciens, artistes, imprimeurs et sources musicales mais également d’analyser certaines œuvres du compositeur. Ainsi, D’India, chanteur, guitariste, compositeur et poète, apparaît comme l’un des musiciens les plus audacieux et les plus singuliers de son temps.Le mécénat artistique accompagne sa carrière musicale : il favorise ses déplacements, relie les différentes villes où se trouvent le musicien et ses dédicataires et facilite l’émulation créatrice. L’étude du mécénat à travers sa production musicale dévoile notamment la multiplicité des rapports entre D’India et ses dédicataires. Enfin, par identité nobiliaire, nous entendons étudier la manière dont le compositeur contribue à la construction de l’identité culturelle d’une cour en même temps qu’il construit son propre statut de noble. L’identité nobiliaire peut être ainsi considérée comme un préalable à l’identité nationale. Nous voulons par ailleurs montrer que D’India remplit parfaitement le rôle de musicien-Gentilhomme et que sa musique participe à la construction d’un modèle d’urbanité. / Sigismondo D’India, (1582? -1629?) a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi, was one of the major composers of the early XVIIth century and one of the founding fathers of modern music. This thesis aims at setting him against a background which requires some reminiscing and updating, that of the court of Turin, where the musician settled between 1611 and 1623. It was the most fruitful period of his musical career, the study of which addresses three issues: music, patronage and nobiliary identity.I shall first study the movements of musicians, artists, printers and musical sources, and shall analyse besides some works by the composer. It appears that Sigismondo D’India, together a singer, a guitar-Player, a composer and a poet, stands out as one of the boldest and the most idiosyncratic musicians of his days.His musical career goes hand in hand with artistic patronage, which made his travelling easier, connected the various cities accommodating the musician and his dedicatees and facilitated creative emulation. The study of patronage through D’India’s creativity in music points out, among other things, the numerous relationships between him and his dedicatees.Finally, through the notion of nobiliary identity, I shall focus on the way in which the composer contributed to building up the cultural identity of a court while building up his own status as a nobleman. The nobiliary identity can thus be considered a first step toward national identity. I also aim at showing that D’India was perfectly up to the role of gentleman-Musician, and that his music contributed to building a model of urbanity.

La bibliographie sur la polyphonie profane italienne des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, qui décrit aussi le répertoire des éditions de plusieurs auteurs (par rapport à des livres d'un seul compositeur) est restée jusqu'à aujourd'hui la moins connue, la moins cataloguée et la moins mise à jour malgré les efforts des nombreux chercheurs talentueux. Reléguée à une section secondaire du «Vecchio Vogel» (1892) et révisé avec autorité par Alfred Einstein (1962), sa complexité variée a été éludée par la musicologie systématique, avec quelques exceptions rares, mais partielles (Lincoln, Lewis Bernstein.) Le Nuovo Vogel (1977), qui avait prudemment évité ce vaste répertoire 'collectif', non sans certaines inclusions incorrectes (Balbi, Barré, Doni etc.), n’a toujours pas été mis à jour, plus de 35 ans après sa sortie. Même le grand effort de catalogage RISM (B/I) ne donne aucune garantie d'exhaustivité ni d’utilité suffisante, car il n’affronte pas de manière systématique, par exemple, les problèmes de l'anonymat de plus de mille pièces, ou ce ‘Di incerto autore’ dispersé dans l'histoire de la musique vocale imprimée au Renaissance. Cela signifie qu'à ce jour, le savant qui veut examiner consciemment la genèse, le mouvement et la documentation historique de première main sur une pièce donnée, ou sur les madrigaux d'un livre collectif (que par souci de concision, nous avons défini UBI) doit feuilleter un répertoire de plus de huit mille textes de madrigaux. (UBI et uesi sont des néologismes pour décrire le répertoire que nous étudions). De nombreuses études, bien que limitées à certains livres, ont documenté la richesse musicale, littéraire, linguistique, géographique et professionnelle de ce grand répertoire de pièces de musique, ressentant le besoin d'un ordre plus important, sans que rien de tel n'ait été fait. À ce besoin urgent a répondu un travail du présent auteur consacré à l'indexation complète des livres, des textes, des dédicaces, des notes internes et des documents originaux que ce répertoire présente: ce nouvel outil bibliographique est appelé RIM (musique de la Renaissance italienne). La transcription intégrale de plus de 98% des textes mis en musique dans ce répertoire avec le nécessaire soutien informatisé et numérisé permet à tous ceux qui s'occupent de l'historiographie musicale italienne de la Renaissance non seulement d’identifier d'un grand nombre de pièces jusqu'aujourd'hui anonymes, mais constitue aussi un progrès dans de nombreux domaines du madrigal italien. Ce n’est qu’une fois que le RIM a été disponible qu’il a été possible de mener une enquête systématique sur l'organisation interne des UBI. Cette thèse est donc une recherche systématique sur l'organisation interne des anthologies (que l’on définit ici comme un choix de chansons déjà connues) et des edizioni collettive (à la différence des anthologies, les éditions collectives contiennent un choix de chansons originales), disposées de manière appropriée afin d'identifier et d'offrir des programmes structurés selon les intentions des coordinateurs-compilateurs, ou de celui qui signe la dédicace, ou encore des artistes qui les ont compilées dans le but d'honorer et d'illustrer leur propre communauté. Environ 150 livres étudiés nous permettent d'identifier une richesse jusque-là inconnue de propositions collectives et d'ingénieuses organisations texte-musique, qui conduisent à la fin de la période à la création du livret d'opéra ante litteram avant l'avènement même du mélodrame. / The bibliography on the Italian secular polyphony of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which describes the repertoire in the editions of various authors (compared to that of the books of a single composer) has remained until today the least known, the least up-to-date, despite the efforts of several talented scholars. Relegated to a secondary section from the first Vogel (1892) and authoritatively revised by Alfred Einstein (1962), it was systematically 'baffled' by the musicology due to its varied complexity, with only some rare but partial exception (Lincoln, Lewis, Bernstein). Neither the New Vogel (1977), which had prudently evaded this gigantic repertoire – apart from some strange inclusions (Balbi, Barré, Doni etc.) –, has been updated in the last 35 years. Also the huge effort of the RISM (B/I) catalogue gives no assurance of completeness or noteworthy usefulness until, for example, the problem of the over one thousand anonymous or 'Of uncertain author' songs that disseminate the history of printed vocal music of the '500 /' 600 is fully addressed. This means that to date the scholar who wants to consciously examine the genesis, the movement and the historical first-hand records on a given song, or on the songs of a collective book (which we have defined UBI for brevity) has to go through the not-indexed list of more than eight thousand songs-texts. Many studies, although limited to individual books, have documented the wealth of musical, literary, linguistic, geographical, professional proposals of this section, feeling the need of a larger organization without doing nothing to overcome this situation. The study and research of a single Italian scholar has finally remedied this binding necessity with a complete indexing of books, texts, dedications, internal notes in the books and the original documents provided by that repertory: this new bibliographical tool is called RIM (Italian Renaissance music). The full transcript of more than the 98% of the texts set to music in this repertoire, with the necessary computerized and digitized supports, allows the entire historiography on the Renaissance to progress its studies and research, not only in the identification of several hundreds of songs so far anonymous, but in many fields of the entire historiography of music in the age of the Italian madrigal. Carrying out a systematic investigation on the compilatory organization of the UBI has been possible only thanks to the availability of the RIM. This thesis therefore represents the systematic investigation on anthologies (choices of already known songs) and on edizioni collettive (collective editions are books of original songs) appropriately arranged in order to form programs and courses coherent in sense with the intentions of the coordinators, compilers-dedicators, artists who have compiled them to honour and illustrate their own community with music and poetry. About 150 books examined allow us to identify a previously unknown wealth of collective proposals and ingenious text-music organization to be seen as 'Libretto' ante litteram before the advent of melodrama. / La bibliografia relativa alla polifonia profana italiana cinque/secentesca che descrive anche il repertorio contenuto nelle edizioni di vari autori (rispetto a quello dei libri di un solo compositore) è rimasta fino ad oggi la meno nota, la meno aggiornata e la meno catalogata nonostante gli sforzi di valenti studiosi. Relegata in una sezione secondaria fin dal primo Vogel (1892) e rivista autorevolmente da Alfred Einstein(1962), nella sua complessità variegata è stata ‘elusa’ sistematicamente dalla musicologia, con qualche rara ma, in ogni caso, parziale eccezione (Lincoln, Lewis, Bernstein.) Nemmeno il Nuovo Vogel (NV,1977), il quale aveva prudenzialmente eluso deliberatamente questo vasto repertorio, non senza qualche strana inclusione (Balbi, Barré, Doni ecc.), alla distanza d'un tempo pari ad un ‘mezzo cammin di nostra vita’, non è stato più aggiornato. Per analoghe ragioni l'ingente sforzo catalografico del RISM B/I non si rivela di soverchia utilità, né dà certezza di completezza, finché, per esempio, non si affronti in modo sistematico il problema degli oltre mille brani adespoti o ‘Di incerto autore’ che disseminano la storia della musica vocale profana stampata fino al 1700. Ciò significa che a tutt’oggi lo studioso che voglia esaminare coscientemente la genesi, la circolazione e la documentazione storica di prima mano su un determinato brano, (o sui brani di un libro collettivo, che per brevità abbiamo definito UBI) deve passare in rassegna l'intero repertorio non indicizzato di oltre ottomila brani/testi. (UBI e uesi sono neologismi da noi ideati, che sono discussi nel primo capitolo della tesi, funzionali a descrivere il repertorio indagato). Molti studi, ancorché limitati a singoli libri collettivi, hanno documentato la ricchezza di proposte musicali, letterarie, linguistiche, geografiche e professionali di questa sezione di repertorio vocale, segnalando la necessità di un più ampio ordinamento, senza che nulla di tutto ciò sia stato fatto. Lo studio e la ricerca di uno singolo studioso italiano ha finalmente dato una risposta - creando una base di dati, cioè uno strumento informatico - che ha, almeno in parte, sanato questa esigenza davvero inderogabile, con un’indicizzazione completa dei frontespizi, dei testi poetici, delle dediche, delle documentazioni originali e delle note interne dei libri collettivi che tale repertorio presenta: questo nuovo strumento bibliografico si chiama RIM (Rinascimento Musicale Italiano). La trascrizione integrale, con i necessari supporti informatici digitalizzati, di oltre il 98% dei testi messi in musica di questo repertorio consente all’intera storiografia musicale un sicuro progresso non solo nella migliore identificazione dei brani già noti (e soprattutto di un buon numero di anonimi), ma anche di cogliere e fornire una visione complessiva del fenomeno in numerosi campi della storiografia musicale del ’5/'600. Con il RIM è stato possibile procedere all'indagine sistematica sull'organizzazione compilativa delle singole UBI. Questa tesi è quindi l'indagine sistematica sulle anthologie (scelte di brani già noti) e sulle edizioni collettive cioè libri di brani originali, disposti in modo idoneo a costituire programmi e percorsi di senso strutturati secondo le intenzioni dei coordinatori-dedicatori, artisti che le hanno compilate con lo scopo precipuo di onorare ed illustrare la propria comunità tramite la musica e la poesia. I circa 150 libri esaminati in maniera completa ci permettono di segnalare un'ideale ricchezza di proposte collettive e di geniale organizzazione testo-musica finora sconosciuta. È un'organizzazone che si configura come 'Libretto' ante litteram di opere musicali ben prima dell'avvento stesso del melodramma.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. / 30 lute intabulations of Arcadelt madrigals: p. 432-497. Includes bibliography (p. 498-506) and indexes.

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In the German music of the first half of the 17th century one encounters a relatively narrow repertoire. In comparison to both the polychoral and monodical styles imported from Italy and conservative local compositions it attracts attention due to its individual character.

War Giovanni Maria Artusi (um 1540–1613) zu Lebzeiten ein hochangesehener Musiktheoretiker, so hat insbesondere die Kontroverse mit Claudio Monteverdi und dessen Bruder Giulio Cesare dafür gesorgt, dass er in der musikalischen Forschung lange Zeit als Inbegriff eines reaktionären Musiktheoretikers rezipiert wurde, der nicht in der Lage gewesen sei, das Visionäre und Wegweisende der Musik Monteverdis zu erfassen. Trotz der weiten Kreise, die das Thema innerhalb der wissenschaftlichen Rezeption seither gezogen hat, wird erst in diesem Beitrag anhand einiger ausgewählter Passagen aus Artusis Canzonette a quattro voci (1598) auch dessen kompositorisches Schaffen in die Diskussion miteinbezogen. / Although Giovanni Maria Artusi (c. 1540–1613) was a well-respected music theorist during his lifetime, the controversy with Claudio Monteverdi and his brother Giulio Cesare ensured that the musical establishment regarded him as a mere reactionary, who was unable to recognise the visionary and ground-breaking aspects of Monteverdi’s music. Despite myriad academic publications on the topic, this is the first article to include Artusi’s own compositions in the discussion by considering selected passages from Artusi’s Canzonette a quattro voci (1598).

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This work deals with Carl Luython's madrigal composition. Carl Luython was composer and organist at the court of Rudolph II. Part of this work is a critical edition of the first book of madrigals of Carl Luython and deeper analytical probe into the two selected madrigals: Due rose fresche a Io mi rivolgo indietro. Key words Luython, Petrarca, Rudolph II., Prague, madrigal, edition, analysis