Io Piango from Madrigali: Six “Fire Songs” on Italian Renaissance Poems by Morten Lauridsen 4-Part - Sheet Music

Name: Io Piango
Brand: Hal Leonard
SKU: 19556067
Price: 1.9 USD
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By Morten Lauridsen

Io Piango 4-Part scores gallery preview page 1

Details

Instrument:

Choir

Genres:

20th Century

Composers:

Morten Lauridsen

Artist:

Morten Lauridsen

Format:

Collection / Songbook

Item types:

Physical

Usages:

School and Community

Detailed Description

SATB a cappella Choral (SATB a cappella)

SKU: HL.228638

From Madrigali: Six “Fire Songs” on Italian Renaissance Poems. Composed by Morten Lauridsen. Peermusic Classical. Classical. Softcover. 8 pages. Hal Leonard #61646-121. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.228638).

UPC: 680160429141. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches.

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames, burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employing this fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting, modality, bold harmonic shifts, intricate counterpoint, augenmusik, etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from a single, primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations, providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle of madrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts. --Morten Lauridsen.