Choral Choir (Mixed) - Level 4 - Digital Download
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Composed by Tiburzio Massaino. Arranged by Guido Menestrina. A Cappella,Baroque,Renaissance,Sacred. Octavo. 4 pages. Guido Menestrina #3075306. Published by Guido Menestrina (A0.828755).
Canzone sacra a 7 voci dal "Sacrarum Cantionum Septem Vocibus Liber Primus" di Tiburzio Massaino (1550-1609), una delle sue ultime opere pubblicate.
Massaino era un frate agostiniano, molto estroso nelle sue elaborazioni contrappuntistiche (soprattutto in quelle sacre, fino a 16 voci, ma anche in quelle profane e strumentali, più misurate). E' celebre, tra l'altro per essere stato il fondatore della Cappella Musicale del duomo di Salisburgo, ma fu maestro di cappella anche nella nativa Cremona, a Piacenza, Lodi, Salò, Roma e Praga.
La canzone sacra qui proposta presenta la scena della decapitazione di S.Giovanni il Battista, o meglio della richiesta della sua testa da parte di Salomè, "puella saltante" su istigazione della madre Erodiade.
Trascrizione in chiavi moderne a cura di Guido Menestrina
A 7-voices sacred song by Tiburzio Massaino, who was maestro di cappella in many towns in Italy, but also in Praha and Salzburg, published a couple years before his death, in 1607.
Massaino had a very colourful contrapunctal style, particularly in his sacred music.
This song describes the moment in which Salomè, the "dancing girl", asks king Herod john the Baptist's head as a prize for her dancing, thus incited by her mother Herodias.
Here's the full text in Latin:
Puellae saltanti imperavit Mater:
nihil aliud petas, nisi caput Ioannis Baptistae
da mihi in disco caput Ioannis Baptistae;
et contristatus est Rex propter iusiurandum
et propter simul discumbentis noluit eam contristari
sed misso spiculatore praecepit amputari caput Ioannis Baptistae
et dedit Puellae quae dedit Matri suae.
and an English translation:
The mother commanded the dancing girl to ask for nothing but the head of John the Baptist.
"Give me in a dish the head of John the Baptist." And the king grew sad because of his oath; but he didn't want to object to the girl and sent an executioneer to cut the head of John the Baptist, and gave it to the girl, who gave it to the mother.
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