Frottole (1502) — Vol. 2

This second volume of Frottole brings together the first 23 unica in 4 voices from an Italian manuscript from 1502 kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. They are originally religious or secular vocal pieces. The texts being written in ancient Italian - probably an idiom from the Mantua or Ferrara region, where the copyist Lodovico Milliare lived - it was unfortunately impossible for us to reconstruct them. Nevertheless, and as was implicitly admitted at that time, the pieces presented are perfectly adapted to instrumental playing.

Content:

• Benedictus Dominus Deus 
• Aime il core mi dole
• Sergonta bergonta
• Tente alora Ruzenenta
• O falso mondo
• Chi lharia mal creduto
• Ben che seria tempo
• Risguarda il viso mio
• A la fesi si a la fe bona
• Andati accesi mei suspiri
• Dal cello non hebe mai
• O vergine del celo imperatrice
• Allelluia
• Et exultavit
• Benedicamus domino
• O vui che seguilate
• Morte ? che voy
• La mi la sol la mi gia voi
• Cognosco bem che la mia vita
• Et exultavit
• Rusticus ut asinum suum vidit
• Iti suspiri la dove amore
• Chi desidra esser felice

Parts :

Score + 4 viol parts (soprano, alto, tenor and bass)