Genre Categories | Madrigals; For 5 voices; For unaccompanied voices; |
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Work Title | La verginella è simile alla rosa |
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Alternative. Title | |
Composer | Ruffo, Vincenzo |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IVR 23 |
Key | G Dorian mode |
Librettist | Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533) |
Language | Italian |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Renaissance |
Piece Style | Renaissance |
Instrumentation | 5 voices (SAAAT/B) |
Though this work appears in 1556 in Opera nuova di musica, Libro 4 (No.2), it is a motet, and Ruffo's first book of motets was published in 1542, so that is possibly the first publication. To be confirmed.