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Preface and notes in English, with English translations for the French words in the music. 1994 first edition A-R Editions, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin), 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches tall paperbound in brown printed covers, xxvi, [2], 179 pp. Covers very slightly rubbed and edgeworn. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce edition. Review copy, with a letter from the publisher laid in. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP31~ Volume 97 in the series Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance Era. ~SP31~ Preface and notes in English. French words also printed as texts with English translations. Polyphonic chansons for 4, 5, and 8 voices. Edited from a complete set of part-books in the Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (shelf mark 4, Mus. 60b). Contents: Preface (Ronsard and Castro; The Coposer and His Music; The Chansons, odes, et sonetz; Editorial Method; Critical Commentary; Acknowledgements; Notes); Texts and Translations; Plates; Amour, dy moy de grace; Amour me tue, et si je ne veus dire; De peu de bien on vit honestement; Si le ciel est ton pays et ton pere; Quand je dors je ne sens rien; Je te hay bien (croy moy) maitresse; Mignonn', allon voir si la rose; Ah je meurs, ah baise moy; Las, ou fuis tu? atten encor un peu; Si je trepasse entre tes bras, madame; Quand je vous voy, ma gentille maitresse; Je ne saurois aymer autre que vous; La nuict m'est courte, et le jour trop me dure; Mignonne, leves-vous, vous estes paresseuse; Mon Dieu, que jaim' a baiser les beaus yeus; Je suis homme ne pour mourir; Pleut-il a Dieu n'avoir jamais tate; Je suis tellement langoureus; Quand tu tournes tes yeus ardens; O Pucelle plus tendre; Petite Nymfe folatre; Que dis tu, que fais tu, pensive: dialogue a 8. Jean de Castro (circa 1540 - 1611) was a Belgian Composer. Although he has virtually been forgotten in the revival of renaissance music, he was during his life second only to Lassus in his popularity according to the Antwerp printer-publisher Christophe Plantin. Despite the Spanish-sounding name, Castro was a local from Liege, referred to as 'nostre Castro' by the poet Etienne de Walcourt. He worked in Antwerp in the 1570s and was maitre de chapelle to the Duke of Juliers, Liege, in 1580. Editor Jeanice Brooks is currently head of the Department of Music at the University of Southampton (England). Her main research interests are in French music and culture of the 16th and 20th centuries, domestic music-making in Georgian Britain, and music and gender. Brooks has written two books, one on music and courtly mentalities in early modern France and one on Nadia Boulanger's performing career in the interwar period.
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