in Early Music Today (Mar, 2016)
Most likely commissioned as a wedding or anniversary giftfor the wife of prominent Venetian nobleman Leonardo Sanudo, Il Trionfo di Dori consists of a collection of 29 six-part madrigals published in 1592. Each features a different poet and composer, all conclude with the refrain ‘Viva la bella Dori’, Dori being the daughter of the sea king Oceanus and here a metaphor for Sanudo’s wife, Elisabetta. If the format sounds familiar, it probably is, having been borrowed by Thomas Morley for his Triumphs of Oriana (1601), the rather better known tribute (at least in the English speaking world) to another Elizabeth.
The texts without exception occupy an untroubled pastoral world. Such poetry …
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