Renaissance · 1599
Solo e pensoso
L. Marenzio
- Key
- Em
- Time
- C
- Tempo
- ♩=56
- AO focus
- AO3
Incipit
Form
Five-voice madrigal — setting of Petrarch sonnet. Famous chromatic ascending opening.
Teaching points
- Petrarch sonnet text
- Chromatic ascending phrase
- AO3: late-Renaissance chromaticism
Full score ↓Public domain
CPDL multiple eds, PD.