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A madrigal by Flemish composer Willaert (c. 1490–1562), maestro di cappella at St. Mark's Venice from 1527, playing on the Petrarchan contrast of weeping and singing.
Vecchie letrose is a comic Italian vocal work by Adrian Willaert associated with the canzone villanesca tradition. Its text and musical character belong to the lighter, more humorous side of Renaissance secular song, contrasting with the serious and courtly madrigals also written by Willaert. The pi...
Amor mi fa morire is an Italian madrigal by Adrian Willaert, the Flemish-born composer who became maestro di cappella at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1527 and held the post until his death in 1562. The title means that love makes me die, placing the piece within Renaissance settings of Italian l...
Io amai sempre is a secular Italian madrigal by Adrian Willaert, a Franco-Flemish composer associated with the musical life of Venice and St. Mark's Basilica. The piece sets a text by Francesco Petrarch and appears among the four-voice madrigals in Willaert's Musica Nova, a collection printed in Ven...
