> That's absolutely great music to play and a lot of fun. There is a > continuo part in the acadia online music archive
I think Steve, the original email writer, is referring to the madrigal version, published in Monteverdi, Madrigals Book 6: Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci...(1614). This has a continuo bass line in a separate part book. The new Monteverdi edition has the facsimile as well as the edition (Claudio Monteverdi, Opera omnia; a cura della Fondazione Claudio Monteverdi, vol. 10, Madrigali a 5 voci, libro sesto - call no. in our library [so similar elsewhere]: M3 .M78 1970 v.10). I do not think this continuo is realized in the edition, though it might be; I can pop down to the library and have a look if that helps. In any case, if there, the realization would be for keyboard (I expect). The score at the Acadia Early Music Archive is the monody version, published by Magni as a separate song in 1623. It is complete as far as the 1623 printing is concerned. This probably is the version that most other musicians of the seventeenth century knew, and that had a significant influence on later music. The file at Acadia is an encapsulated PostScript file set up for legal size paper. You can print it to most printers using Ghost View / GS View (with Ghostscript) (I have links for that at the site). If anyone has any trouble I can make a PDF. In the original opera, Arianna (1607/08), the lament had concluding choruses at the end of each of the first four sections, plus a final chorus. There may also have been ritornelli between the sections. Since all that survives today is the solo voice part of Arianna (as published in 1623), no one knows anything about the music of these choruses or the possible ritornelli. The madrigal seems to be Monteverdi's arrangement of the solo, though it is tempting (and completely speculative) to consider some connection with the lost choruses. GJC To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
