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72^ STRIGGIO STRINASACCHI
1569), recounting the principal evenis in the
festivities celebrated at the weddiiig of Wilhelm
VI. of Bavan*ia and Rcnata di Loreno, mention
is made (Lib. 3, p. 147) of a motet in 40 parts
composed by Striggio, ' il quale fu degno d' ogni
honore e laude' ; it was written for 8 tromboni,
8 viole da .arco, 8 flauti grossi, uno instrumento
da penna, and uu linto grosso, the rest of the
parts being supplied by voices, and was twice
performed before large audiences.
In a little book published at Florence in
1579, Feste nelle Ttozze del ser&iiiss. Dom Francesco
Medioiy e della sereniss. Sig. Bicmca 'CappdlOf
da Ma^aello ChicUt&rotU, p. 20, there is
an allusion to the diverse musielMij con molte
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voci ed infiniti strumenti ' composed by Striggio,
that most excellent musician. He was also
responsible for mu^e to the &;st, second, And
fiftii intermedio in the Oommedia written for
the wedding of €esare d' Este and Virginia de
Medici .at Florence (Bastiano 4e' Eossi, Berscrizione.
Firenze, 1585).
Striggio al«o oomposeda greatmany madi'igals
Morley in his Blaine cmd easie Introduction,,
1597, p. 35, gives illustrations of various
proportions in m>easared '* ^ music from Striggio's
madrigal AH' aoqua * sagra ' for six voices, and
also includes Striggio's name in the list of
'
practitioners the moste parte of whose works
we haue (^ligentiy jperused, for Ending the ti-ue
use of the moods.' Bumey scou'ed several of
the madrigals.: one, * Invidioso amor* for five
voices, from the'Seoondo libro de la muse,* 1559,
isintheBritishM-useTim, Add.MS. 11,583 ; and
another, ' Gravi pene ' from ' Madrigali a 4 voci
di Cipriano -e Aunibale,' 15755 is in the Add.
MS, 11,588. Another of his madrigals, 'Chi
fara fed' aX cielo '
for four voices, afterwards used
by Peter Philips -as a theme for a fantasia (in
the Fitewitliam Virginal Book, i. 312), is to
be fouad rather unexpectedly in a rare book
published at Frankfort iu 1615, called Les
raisoiisdesfoTcesmouvcLnUsGLWiGdimrsesTn^dhinaSi
etc., pai* Salomon De Cans ; m. the account of
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La roue musicale (un orgue m^cauiqme) ' it is
the ' piece 4e musi'g;ue g^ui est posee sur ladite
roue,' and the music, the four parts scored, is
repi-oduiced on the back of plate 38.
The following worlcs by Striggio were published,
some during his lifetime, others after his
death, bys his sou Alessandro :
m AleasaudTo ^Arcig^ia, gentliVhiucnn'o mnBitDiiaiiQ, aervitore del-
V illustrlsa. et eccellentisa. Cosmo de Medici, Duea di Flrenze e dl
Siena, n primo llbro de tna,djrigfbli a sei TOoi.
(Tlie earliest editioa ol tbls book Is not Iehowq, It was reprinted In
Venice by Antonio aardftiit) inl'560, 1565, 1569; and later editione
vera pablished there by Fran>GesGo RamxHiz^to in 1566, by ^ipolamo
Scotto and hie succeiisors In 1566, 1578, and 1585^ and by Angelo
Grardxno in 1579 and 1'592.)
II aecondo llbi-o de madrigali a sei voci.
[This was also reprinted In Venice, by Oirdlamo Sctftto and hie
successors in 1571, 1573, 1579, aitd 1582, and by Angelo Gardano in
1592; the earlieat edition ia unknown.)
t)i Aleasandro Striggio, OentiVh iiomo mantovano, serrltore, etc.
II prirao libro de madrigali a cinque voci.
(0£ this work again only reprints are toiowB,!!!^ Antonio Gardano
in 1560 and in 1569, by Scotto in 1660, 1566, and 1585, and by Fr.
Rampazetto, cfrcalS66.)
II secondo libro de madrigali a cinque Toci di M, Alessandro
striggio, gentirhtiorao mantovano, nouainente posti in lace.
In Vinegia appr^so GiiwlamD Scotto, 1^70.
(It was reiflsued by Scotto in 1571, 1573, 1579, and 1588.)
II terzo libro de madripiild acinque voci del Sig. AleBsandro Striggio,
etc., Venetia. Angelo Gardano, 1596.
fbedieated to the Duke of Mantua by Striggio's son AleBHffndiro,
irtio in alluding to his father, writes of thia work d' imo che nucque
Buo fluddito e visae alcun tempo aervitore deUa -felice memoria del
aerenlsB. Sig. suo Padre, che siain gloria, emori'flnalmenteserveiido
II qiiarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, etc Venetia. Angelo
OaTdano, 1596.
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II qninto libra de madrigali a 5 voci, etc Venetia. Angelo
GiiTdano, 1597.
(Both books edited by Striggio's sou.)
II cicalamento delle Donne al bucato et la caecia di Aleesandro
Striggio, Con nn lamento di Didone ad Enea per la «ua partenza di
Cipriano Uore, a 4, 5, 6 e 7 voci. Di nono posto in Ince per Giulio
Bonaeiontfl. da San Genesi, uinsico della illua. Signoria diVeneziain
S. Marco, Vinegia. Qirolamo Scotto, 1567.
(lOeprinted in 1569, and ngain In 1584, with a slightly different
title) :—
m OicalBmMDto delle donne al bucato « la caecia di Aleaaanm-o
Striggio a 4, 5, 6 « 7 voci, con il gioco di primiera a cinque voci del
tnedesimo, uovamente agionto.
(There istamanoBcrtptcopy in fiveparb-booksiuCh. Ch, Library.
Oxford.)
Other MSS. me to be Sound in '^e libraries at
fiertsn.—MS. Z, 28, date 1599, a score of Faciem tuam ' ' {' nasce
1» pena'} for six voices; the same compoBition in
MS. Z, 82, a 16th-oentury Itfte-book. (Bitner.)
Bologna.—A. 1613 MS. contains four madrigals lor six voices in
ecore. (Gaspetdni'B Gat.)
firtej;.—Imperfect copies of
'
Nasce la pena.' (Kuhn's Cat.)
9iiu««!«.-^Madri^B in MS. ESS9. (F^tia, BibL RoycHe.)
Xfepmte.—Eight maiirigals for six voices. (PCudel's Cat.)
Jf'Bixw.-^onservatoire.—A mass for four voices and a mass for
five voicea (Canal.)
Modena.—Bibl. palatina. A canzone with lute accompaniment,
JBwwiDfc.—MS. 318, dated 1628, 'Ad iritida' i{*du iaxa.'] for five,
'ifascltuT cum dolore'^' Nasce la pena mia') for six,
'Quae nnalier' ("All' apparir'J for (right voices.
(Maier'sOat.)
Proske Ltbrarff.—I-n MS. 774 and 75, thirteen madrigals. (Eitner.)
Jtoyal College of JItieic—'In MS. 1881, four part-books of 17tili
century, ' Love hath proclaimed ' for six voices. A
lute piece in MS. 1964.
Vpsala.—MS. J. mus. 108, a piece i]i organ tablature.
^wicibau.—MS. 732, dated 1587. Ecce ' heiUtnun Incem'a^D vocibos
in 4 chori, Bassone canato dalle parte pifl basse del
40 persone. Chorus I. eight voices ; Chorus 11. ten
voicefi ; Chorus III. sixteen voices ; Chorus IV. six
voices. (Vollhardt's Ca;t.)
About 41 of Stri^o'BcompositlonsweFealso published at Venicein
collected works, ranging from the year 1559 to 1626. Five of his
madrigals are in Torcin, Arte Tnnuicalein Italia, voL L C S.
STRIKING REED. A beating reed. One
in whieli the vibrator or tongue strikes tlie face
of the reed. (See Reed and Rbedstop.) t. e.
STRINASAOCHI, Regina, a distinguished
violin-player, bom at Ostiglia near Mantua in
1764, and educated at the Conservatorio della
Ket^ in Tenice, and in Paris. From 1780 to
1783 she traTelled through Italy, and won great
admiration by her playing, lier good looks, and
her attractive manners. She next went to
Vienna, and gave two concerts at the National
Court "Hieatre in the Burg on March 29 and
April 24, 1784. For the second of these
Mozart composed a, sonata in B|> (Kochel 454),
of wTiioh he wrote out the violin-part complete,
but played the accompaniment himself from a
few memoranda whicli he had dashed down on
the PF. staves. ' The Emperor Joseph, noticing
irom his box above the Uank look of the paper
on the desk, sent for Mozart and obliged him to
confess
'
the true state of the case. Strinasacchi
plays with much taste and feeling, ' writes Mozart
to his fath«r, who quite agreed with him after
hearing her at Salzburg.
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Even in symphonies,
Leopold writes to his daughter, 'sTie always plays
with expression, and nobody could play an
Adagio more touohingly or with more feeling
than she ; licr whole heart and soul is in the
1 This Interesting MS. iB now in the posseasion of Mr. F. O. Kurtz
of X^verpool. Mnzait flllBd in tlie complete accompaniment afterwards
in an ink of slightly different colour from that which he first
employed, «o tOiat the akaJbB of tlie MS. at the Hi-st performance cm
he readily seen.