Il Trionfo Di Dori is a collection of 29 Italian madrigals published by Angelo Gardano in Venice in 1592. An edition and commentary was published by Edward Harrison Powley in 1974. [1] In England the collection was imitated in The Triumphs of Oriana. [2] [3] [4] In German the collection was edited as Musicalische Streitkrantzelein. [5]
The year 1600 in music involved some significant events.
The Triumphs of Oriana is a book of English madrigals, compiled and published in 1601 by Thomas Morley, which first edition has 25 pieces by 23 composers for 5 and 6 voices. The first 14 madrigals are for 5vv, the last 11 for 6vv. It was said to have been made to honour Queen Elizabeth I. Every madrigal in the collection contains the following couplet at the end: “Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana: long live fair Oriana” though some of the composers wrote variants of this refrain.
The year 1605 in music involved some significant events.
The decade of the 1540s in music involved some significant events.