I lieti amanti. Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci
By: di diversi eccellentissimi musici novamente composti, & dati in luce
Contributors: Amadino, Ricciardo, active 1572-1621, publisher; Zanluca, Hippolito, compiler; Bevilacqua, Mario, active 16th century, dedicatee; Fiorini, Ippolito, 1542-1615; Striggio, Alessandro, 1536 or 1537-1592; Vecchi, Orazio, 1550-1605; Mel, Rinaldo del, approximately 1554-approximately 1598; Alberti, Innocentio, approximately 1535-1615; Rota, Andrea, 1553-1597; Milleville, Alessandro, 1521?-1589; Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599; Tosone, Marcello; Ganassi, Alfonso; Agostini, Lodovico, 1534-1590; Porta, Costanzo, 1528 or 1529-1601; Dall'Occa, Alberto; Giovannelli, Ruggiero, approximately 1560-1625; Virchi, Paolo, 1551 or 1552-1610; Wert, Giaches de, 1535-1596; Isnardi, Paolo, 1536-1596; Gabrieli, Andrea, approximately 1533-1585; Luzzaschi, Luzzasco, -1607; Bertani, Lelio, approximately 1550-approximately 1620
Published: 1586
Language: ita
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Italian Madrigals
Other titles: I lieti amanti. Primo libro de madrigali a cinqve voci
Notes: Collection of Italian madrigals in five parts (SATB5).

All pieces for five voices apart from the last two, which are in six parts.

With table of contents on p. [22].

Title from Canto part book title page.

Transcribed title from Canto part book: CANTO / I LIETI AMANTI / PRIMO LIBRO / DE MADRIGALI / A CINQUE VOCI, / DI DIVERSI ECCELLENTISSIMI MVSICI / nouamente composti, & dati in luce. / IN VENETIA / Presso Giacomo Vincenzi, & Ricciardo Amadino, compagni. / M D LXXXVI.

Contains the part for the fifth (quinto) voice only.

Pagination: [i], 1-2, 5, 4-5, 3, 7-11, 10, 13-21, [22] p. (Canto).

Copy at C.123.s. CANTO (12 leaves); paper dimensions: 210 x 155 mm.

Signatures: N-Óþ Ṕæ.

Bound with: Spolgia amorosa / Francesco Landono. 1585.

RISM B/I, 1586℗£́ʻ

Gaspari online, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/scripts/gaspari/scheda.asp?id=7218, accessed 9 June 2014.

Staff notation.

Text in Italian.

Catalogued 20151201 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy included within a "bound with" volume. Copy bound in marbled tan leather with brown leather spine over boards. Binder's spine title and decorative parallel bars in gilt. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library, identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates, received September 15, 1859. Verso of front flyleaf includes autograph in blue ink script. First title page includes embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Printed on antique laid papers featuring horizontal chainlines, vertical wire lines, and watermark visible at spine-edge, just above center of leaf. Includes handwritten page numbers at head-/fore-edge of leaves, in pencil script. Rear pastedown includes remnants of affixed label.