Monteverdi - The Sixth Book of Madrigals - 09. Ohimè il bel viso (arr. Mike Lyons) by Claudio Monteverdi Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Claudio Monteverdi

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Claudio Monteverdi

Arranger Mike Lyons

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 36

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Lyons Music Services

Level 3

Product ID 863713

Genre Baroque

Performance Group Brass Quintet

Product Description

As part of my continuing project to transcribe Monteverdi's madrigals onto winds, here is the 6th book. In this book we see a much greater development towards dramatic representation. In a way, this book is divisible into two Scenes with a number of single items in between. The vocal lines are all much more complex and we can also see the beginnings of monodic writing appear in the semi-recit sections of some of the songs.

Also clearly developing are delineations of the voices into soloists and chorus. Several songs in this book are almost akin to arias, with clear soloistic writing for the higher voices (Cantus/Tenor).

The ninth song (counting the 6 parts of Sestina as one item) is "Ohime il bel viso" - "Alas! The pretty face" sees our young man trying to wheedle an encounter out of his lover. Complaining how much her beauty makes him mad with passion.

As with all things madrigalian, the lyrics are rife with double entendres. Monteverdi uses some very close dissonances to describe death and release.

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