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Appress'un fiume chiaro

Two-voice madrigal by Giovanni da Cascia

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 5v-6 (2/2); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 50v (2/2); San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 2v-3;
Grottaferrata: Biblioteca dell' Abbazia E. B.XVI (olim 374), fol. 4v (2/2);
London: British Library, Additional 29987, fol. 5v-6 (2/2).

Facsimiles

1. The Manuscript London, British Museum Add. 29987, facsimile edition by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Musicological Studies and Documents 13, (Lo).
2. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 94 (FP).
3. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, Amsterdam: American Institute of Musicology, 1954. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/I, p. 8.
2. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 13.
3. Italian Secular Music by Magister Piero, Giovanni da Firenze and Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1967. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VI, p. 24.
4. GOZZI, Marco. [London, British Library 29987: Transcription and Commentary], 2 vols., dissertation, Cremona, Scuola di paleografica musicale, University of Pavia: 1984-1985.
5. GARFORTH, Constance C. The Lo Manuscript: A Trecento Collection, Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University: 1983.

Text Editions

1. CORSI, Giuseppe. Rimatori del Trecento, Turin: Unione tipografica editrice torinese, 1969, p. 1011.
2. CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 11.

Literature

1. MARROCCO, W. Thomas. 'The fourteenth-century madrigal, its form and contents', Speculum, XXVI (1951), p. 455.
2. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Kontrafakturen und Parodien italienischen Werke des Trecento und frühen Quattrocento', Annales musicologiques: moyen-âge et Renaissance, V (1957), p. 44.
3. GHISI, Federico. 'La persistance du sentiment monodique et l'èvolution de la polyphonie italienne du XIVe au XVe siècle', Les Colloques de Wègimont II, 1955, Paris: Sociètè d'Edition "Les belles lettres", 1959, p. 224.
4. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Zur Entwicklung der italienischen Trecento-Notation', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVI (1959), p. 90.
5. CORSI, Giuseppe. 'Madrigali e ballate inedite del Trecento', Belfagor, XIV (1959), p. 329.
6. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'On the technique, origin and evolution of Italian Trecento music', Musical Quarterly, XLVII (1961), p. 41.
7. GHISI, Federico. 'Gli aspetti musicali della lauda fra il XIV e il XV secolo, prima metà', Natalicia Musicologica Knud Jeppesen, edited by Bjorn Hjelmborg and Soren Sorensen, Hafnia: W. Hansen, 1962, p. 51.
8. CORSI, Giuseppe. 'Frammenti di un codice musicale dell' Ars nova rimasti sconosciuti', Belfagor, XX/2 (1965), pp. 211-212.
9. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Ein neues Trecentofragment', Festschrift für Walter Wiora, edited by L. Finscher & C. H. Mahling, Basel and New York:Bärenreiter, 1968, p. 267.
10. FELLIN, Eugene C. A Study of Superius Variants in the Sources of Italian Trecento Music: Madrigals and Cacce, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1970, passim.
11. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Quelques remarques sur les relations entre les Laudesi et les compositeurs florentins du Trecento', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo 1969, 1970, p. 252.
12. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Zum Wort-Ton Problem in der Musik des italienischen Trecento', Festschrift Arnold Geering zum 70. Geburtstag, Bern-Stuttgart: P. Haupt, 1972, p. 56.
13. WESSELY, O. 'Über den Hoquetus in der Musik zu Madrigalen des Trecento', De Ratione in Musica. Festschrift Erich Schenk zum 5. Mai 1972, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1975, pp. 26-27.
14. PAGANUZZI, Enrico. 'Il Trecento', [chapter 2 of] La musica a Verona, Verona: Banca mutua popolare di Verona, 1976, pp. 33-70.
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16. D'ACCONE, Frank. 'Una nuova fonte dell' "Ars nova" italiana: il codice di San Lorenzo, 2111', Studi Musicali, XIII (1984): 3-31.
17. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Sprache und Musik im italienischen Trecento: Zur Frage einer Frührenaissance', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter: 1984, p. 43.
18. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.

Recordings

Musik des Trecento um Jacopo da Bologna, Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich, directed by Michel Piguet (1973): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-111 (GER)/ 1C163-30-107/12 (GER).

Text

Appress'un fiume chiaro
donne e donzelle ballavan d'intorno
ad un perlaro di be' fiori adorno.

Tra queste una ne vidi
bella e zentil e amorosa tanto,
che'l cor mi tolse con soave canto.

ANNAmorar mi fa tuo viso umano
e'l dolce guardo e la pulita mano.
TranslationBy a clear river,
women and girls were dancing
around a Persian lilac full of beautiful flowers.

I saw one among them,
so fair and gentle and lovable
that her sweet singing took away my heart.

Your merciful face, your sweet look
and your neat hand made me fall in love with you.
Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga