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Thou, my sweet, art my happiness

Madrigal book VIII
Music by Luca Marenzio (1553 – 1599)

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.	chansons d'amour
.	the triumph of bacchus
.	the flower dance
.	bacchus invites us to pleasure and joy
.	sweetest sigh
.	pure white moon
.	thou, my sweet, art my happiness
.	oh bitter sweetness
.	a toast, now pass the flask around!
.	the dream and narcissus
.	serenade
.	messalina
.	the night languishes, moans, sighs
.	if beauty kindles your love
.	liederabend
.	cafe' chantant
.	operatic concert
.	rita

The composer uses a new kind of recitative applied to a madrigalian form to highlight the lyricism and theatricality of the poetic text. The whole collection shows an extraordinary level of organic unity, which comes out in a fundamentally harmonic and isorhythmic com-
position. In comparison with his early madrigals, the melismas and descriptive passages have disappeared, so as to emphasise an accentuated concision that reduces to a minimum any textual repetitions.

performers

madrigal group of 5 singers, 7 musicians

instruments

copies of original instruments: fipple flutes, lute, theorbo, group of viols da gamba, organ

duration

c. 1 hour

props

candles, torches

sites

inside or outside an historic villa, small theatre, museum hall

Thou, my sweet, art my happiness

Madrigal book VIIIMusic by Luca Marenzio (1553 – 1599)

Madrigal book VIII
Music by Luca Marenzio (1553 – 1599)