CIPRIANO DE RORE: Ancor che col partire (with divisions by Giovanni Battista Bovicelli) PDF SCORE

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Composed by Cipriano de Rore (c.1516-1565) /Giovanni Battista Bovicelli (1550-1594). From Regole Passaggi di Musica, Venezia, 1594.
Catherine Bott, soprano
Virelai
In order not to always, as the proverb says, frequently repeat the same tune [cantilena] to the great boredom of those who listen, it is a very great ornament to vary it often, yes, with passages of the same notes, but divided in diverse ways. Just as in writing or speaking the greatest boredom for those who listen or read comes if the oration is without any color of [rhetorical] figures-it becomes wearisome on its own accord: so it is with the ornamental passages in singing if they are not [sung] in diverse ways- as it were with ravishing colors-which instead of [bringing] delight bring disgust. I want to say that the passages at times have to be in stepwise motion and of a single [note] value; and at another time the same notes [have to be] in a different variated manner, so that although they are the self-same notes, they nonetheless appear to be different because of the different way of presenting them.”- Giovanni Battista Bovicelli, Regole Passaggi di Musica, Venice, 1594

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