Monteverdi - Third Book of Madrigals No 2. O Come è Gran Martire (arr. Lyons Music Services) by Lyons Music Services Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Lyons Music Services

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Lyons Music Services

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 16

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Lyons Music Services

Level 4

Product ID 863623

Genre Baroque Renaissance

Performance Group Brass Quintet

Product Description

Monteverdi's third book of madrigals of 1592 is one of the earliest steps towards the writing of opera as we know it. In this collection of songs, Monteverdi, for the first time, starts to bring small groups of songs (2 or 3) to form a 'Scena" - a collection with similar words or on a similar theme or by the same poet and keeping them as a little group within the book of madrigals.

Song number two "O Come e Gran Martire" and is an attempt to persuade a young lady to dally by proclaiming how much of a martyr he is to hide his desires!

As with all of Monteverdi's vocal music, it translates really well onto instruments. The individual madrigals are available separately. This flexible arrangement is equally playable on woodwind ensembles as on brass.

Flexible quintet parts are supplied as follows:

Part 1 in Bb,
Part 2 in Bb,
Part 3 in Bb/Eb/F,
Part 4 in Bb/Eb/C(Bass clef) and
Part 5 in Bb/Eb/C(Bass clef)

Other parts may be requested free of charge.

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