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Deh, dimmi tu, che se' così fregiato

canonic madrigal by Francesco Landini

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 125v-126 (3/3).

Facsimiles

Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. ELLINWOOD, Leonard. 'Francesco Landini and his music', Musical Quarterly, XXII (1936), p. 210.
2. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leonard Ellinwood, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1939, p. 22.
3. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. Fourteenth-Century Italian Cacce, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 37.
4. Examples of Music Before 1400, edited by Harold Gleason, Rochester, New York: Eastman School of Music Series, 1942, p. 108.
5. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 206.
6. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1958. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IV, p. 216.
7. CALDWELL, John. Medieval Music, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, London: Hutchinson, 1978, no. 74.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 127.

Literature

1. ELLINWOOD, Leonard. 'Francesco Landini and his music', Musical Quarterly, XXII (1936), p. 204.
2. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940, pp. 30-31.
3. SEAY, Albert. Music in the Medieval World, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1975, p. 155.
4. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, p. 458.
5. REANEY, Gilbert. 'A consideration of the relative importance of words and music in composition from the 13th to the 15th century', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 189.
6. NEWES, Virginia. 'Chace, caccia, fuga: the convergence of French and Italian traditions', Musica Disciplina, XLI (1987), pp. 54-55.

Recordings

1. [Landini], Hortus Musicus, directed by Andres Moustonen: Chant du Monde LDX 78.666 (FRA).
2. The Italian Madrigal: Ars Nova and the 16th Century, Vassar Madrigal Singers, directed by Geer: Allegro ALG 3029.
3. Ecco la Primavera. Florentine Music of the 14th Century, Early Music Consort, directed by David Munrow (1969): Argo ZRG 642 (GB).
4. Francesco Landini 1325 - 1397, Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1973): EMI-Reflexe 1CO63-30-113 (GER).

Text

Deh, dimmi tu, che se' così fregiato
di perle e d'oro, quando tu ti vedi
chi ti par esser? Par aver non credi,

ricco, a cavallo, ben acompagnato.
Ma un fumm'è quel che per gloria tieni,
e fregi e drappi e tondi palafreni.

A che dich'i' di te? ch'a quel ch'i' sento
ogni stato di gente cerca vento