La Verginella (Byrd, William)

First Publication 1588 in Psalmes, Sonets and Songs
Genre Categories Songs; For voice, unspecified instruments; Scores featuring the voice; Scores with open instrumentation; For voices with solo instruments; For 5 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Italian language; English language; For voice, 2 lutes (arr); For voices with solo instruments (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores featuring the soprano voice (arr); Scores featuring the lute (arr); For voice, 2 guitars (arr); Scores featuring the guitar (arr)

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Performances

Sheet Music

Scores and Parts

 Complete Score
#278607 - 0.39MB, 4 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 2096×⇩ - Agarvin

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 Complete Parts
#278608 - 0.65MB, 8 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 442×⇩ - Agarvin

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 Engraving files (Lilypond)
#278609 - 0.01MB, ? pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 208×⇩ - Agarvin

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Agarvin (2013/4/24)

Editor Allen Garvin
Publisher. Info. Dallas: Hawthorne Early Music, 2013.
Copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes This is the consort setting from the Dow partbooks.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Soprano and 2 Lutes (Höger)

 Complete Score (staff and tablature)
#409103 - 0.59MB, 4 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 112×⇩ - Hoeger

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Hoeger (2016/1/30)

Arranger Anton Höger
Publisher. Info. Anton Höger
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Misc. Notes Intabulation in French lute-tablature (g-Lutes). If performed I would look forward about a small reference to my efforts.
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For Soprano and 2 Guitars (Höger)

 Complete Score
#425036 - 0.12MB, 4 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 146×⇩ - Hoeger

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Hoeger (2016/6/2)

Arranger Anton Höger
Publisher. Info. Anton Höger
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Misc. Notes If performed I would look forward about a small reference to my efforts.
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Lyrics (1)

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General Information

Work Title La Verginella
Alternative. Title
Composer Byrd, William
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. T 234
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IWB 135
Key G minor
First Publication. 1588 in Psalmes, Sonets and Songs
Librettist Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533)
Language Italian (+ translations)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Renaissance
Piece Style Renaissance
Instrumentation voice, consort instruments (or 5 voices)
Extra Information This piece exists in several forms. It appeared in more than one manuscript in the 1580s as a consort song. In 1588 it was reworked and appeared in two important published books: Byrd's own Psalmes, Sonets and Songs, with all 5 parts texted with the Italian, also in Musica Transalpina, Book 1, translated into English as "The Fayre Young Virgin".

Navigation etc.

  • The text, an ottava from canto I of Orlando Furioso, was the single most popular text by Ariosto in the 16th century among madrigal writers. James Haar identifies 19 separate settings of it, including Byrd's own.
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