Description

Instrumentation: 2 singing voices and b. c.
Edition: score and parts
Publisher: Elke Mascha Blankenburg
Difficulty: medium

Four duets, scored for S/S, T/T, S/A, S/A, have been chosen from the twenty-five madrigals which comprise Strozzi’s opus 1. The text, which may also have originated from Barbara Strozzi’s pen, belong to the genre of marian love poetry. A German translation by Margaret Minker is included.
Inhalt/Contents: Proemio dell’opera; All Battior di Bronzo della sua crudelissima Dama; Canto di bella bocca, Dialogo in partenza