renaissance

Amazone corsara. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

di Giulio Cesare Corradi ; consacrato all'eccellenza illustrissimo de' signori Francesco Duodo, e Loredana Tron. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; librettist's dedication--p.... More

Alcina. Libretto. Libretto. English & Italian. Performance: London

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; libretto in Italian and English on facing pages; title page, synopsis and cast list in English only; price on title page: One shilling; "The Argument"--verso of title pag... More

Xerse. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; cover illustration; dedication, signed "N.M."--p. [5]; foreword--p. [6]; "Argomento"--p. [7]-[8]; scene descriptions--p. [9]; "Prologo"--p. 10-12. "Con licenza, e priuile... More

Ipermestra. Libretto - Albert Schatz Opera Collection

Three acts; engraved title page; "argomento"--p. 1-2; scene descriptions--p. 3; Act III, scene 6 misnumbered IV. Poetry by Metastasio--New Grove. "La musica è del sig. Ferdinando Bertoni"--p. 4.

Alcina. Libretto. Libretto. English & Italian. Performance: London

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; libretto in Italian and English on facing pages; title page, synopsis and cast list in English only; price on title page: One shilling; "The Argument"--verso of title pag... More

Callirhoé. Libretto - Albert Schatz Opera Collection

les paroles sont de M. Roy ; la musique de M. Destouches. (statement of responsibility) "LXXX. Opera. Tome X." From Recueil général des opéra.

Atys. Libretto. French Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Congr...

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Legal notice--title page; price on title page: 30 sols; censor's statement--p. 60. "Le poëme est de Quinault"--verso of title page. "La musique est de M. Piccini"--verso of title pag... More

Circe. Libretto. Italian Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Con...

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; "Con le debite permissioni"--title page; collector's stamp on title page; "Argomento"--p. 5-6; scene descriptions--p. 8. "La musica tutta nuova è del Sig. Ferdinando Per ... More

Demetrio. Libretto. English&Italian. Performance: London

composed by John Baptist Pescetti. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; price on title page: One shilling; libretto in English and Italian on alternating leaves; dedication in E... More

Falso Tiberino. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; dedication--p. [3]-[10]; "Argomento"--p. [11]-[12]; scene descriptions--p. [14]. "Con licenza de' superiori, e privilegio"--title page. "La musica è del Sig. Carlo Polaro... More

Ercole su'l Termodonte. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

del Bussani ; consacrato all'illustriss. Sig. marchese Maria Maddalena Bernini Lucatelli de nobilissimi marchesi di Ceua. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; frontispiece--p. [... More

Achille in Sciro. Libretto. Libretto. Italian

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; p. 9-98 misnumbered 7-96; p. 80-81, 82-83, 96 [i.e. p. 82-83, 84-85 and 98, respectively] and [1] at end apparently filmed twice; frontispiece--p. 1; printer's dedication... More

Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta libro, altra volt...

Title within engraved architectural border ornamented with vignettes of instrumentalists, a portrait of the author, etc. Head- and tailpieces; initials. The illustrations consist of 10 full-page engravings by G... More

Motetti op. 3 - Public domain music sheet scan

Litanie…, musical notation - Public domain music sheet scan

La dame aux camelias--Sarah Bernhardt Theatre de la Renaissance/ / Muc...

Poster showing Sarah Bernhardt as Camille, full-length, against a background of silver stars, with a hand at lower left holding a branch of camellia blossoms. Purchase; (DLC/PP-2000:097). Exhibited: "Toulouse-... More

Rest von Polnischen und andern Täntzen nach Art , wie im Venusgarten ...

Title from cantus part. Parts for cantus, altus, tenor, bassus, and quinta vox.

Secundo libro di Salmi… - Public domain music sheet scan

Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress a...

Public domain book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lie...

componirt durch Jacobum Regnart röm. key. maiestat. &c. musicum und vice Capellnmeister. (statement of responsibility) For discantus, altus, tenor, vagans, and bassus. Title from bassus part. Part for tenor co... More

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lie...

componirt durch Jacobum Regnart röm. key. maiestat. &c. musicum und vice Capellnmeister. (statement of responsibility) For discantus, altus, tenor, vagans, and bassus. Title from bassus part. Part for tenor co... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinqve voci

Title from canto part. The canto, tenore, alto, basso and quinto parts bound in one volume.

Il secondo libro de madrigali à cinque voci

di Andrea Rota Maestro di Cappella di Santo Petronio. (statement of responsibility) Title from canto part. The canto, tenore, alto, basso and quinto parts in one volume.

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i pro...

A score of the composer's Libro primo de Canzoni da sonare, of which the following editions (in separate part-books) have been preserved: Brescia, V. Sabbio, 1584. The present ms. is either a transcript from th... More

Secondo libro de madrigali senza nome a cinque voci

By Alfonso Fontanelli; attribution from RISM. Parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto bound in one vol.

Secondo libro de madrigali senza nome a cinque voci

By Alfonso Fontanelli; attribution from RISM. Parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto bound in one vol.

Newe teutsche weltliche Madrigalia und Balletten so wol mit lebendigen...

For discantvs, qvinta vox, altvs, tenor, and bassvs. Title from discantvs.

Partitura delli sei libri de' madrigali a 5 voci

Taglio del tamburo, e cupola con sua lanterna

Illus. in: Descrizione e studj dell'insigne fabbrica di S. Maria del Fiore / Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli. Firenze : B. Paperini, 1733, Fig. IX. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western tec... More

Fireplace at the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room Frenc...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

DCM 0997: Augustin Grenser I; Jeremias Schlegel Flute in C

"Germany" stamped in English on the upper joint further confuses the identity. Possibly it pertains to the 1890 tariff mentioned in DCM 996, although that customs law does not apply to antiques. Instrument type... More

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modifie...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...

Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More

[Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y., ca...

Wilmoth Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendircks, sometimes known as Edgar Leon Sinclair) Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in th... More

[Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, bust portrait, facing right]

Sculptor & painter. K32153 U.S. Copyright Office. Halftone reproduction of painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The death of Ananias / Raphael Urbinas, perugo da carpo.

Print shows Ananias lying on the ground in front of the disciples and other observers. The disciple Peter condemns him for telling a lie. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Pho... More

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 4]

Plate 4 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

Ballo di capitani Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

di Novello Bonis ; da rappresentarsi nel Teatro di Sant'Angelo l'anno M.DC.LXXX. [i.e. 1680] ; dedicato all'illustrissimo signor Leonida Zabarella nobile patavino. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libret... More

Pimmalione. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

tratta dalla scena lirica di Monsieur J.J. Rousseau ; per li signori Matteo Babini, e Carolina Pitrot dal signor Sografi ; e posta in musica dal signor Gianbattista Cimador ; da rappresentarsi la sera de' 26. g... More

Alcina. Libretto. Libretto. English & Italian. Performance: London

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; libretto in Italian and English on facing pages; title page, synopsis and cast list in English only; price on title page: One shilling; "The Argument"--verso of title pag... More

Verità in cimento. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Milano

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; dedication, signed: Diomedo Lizzapa--p. 3-4; "Argomento"--p. 5-7; apology--p. 7; scene descriptions--p. 10. Alternate aria, "Il ciglio arciero," for act 1, scene 4 printe... More

Alcina. Libretto. Libretto. English & Italian. Performance: London

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; libretto in Italian and English on facing pages; title page, synopsis and cast list in English only; price on title page: One shilling; "The Argument"--verso of title pag... More

Medonte, re di Epiro. Libretto. Italian

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; dedication--p. 3-4; "Argomento"--p. 5-6; scene and ballet descriptions--p. 7-8. "Regio impressore"--title page. "Inventore, ed architetto delle sudette scene il Sig. D. D... More

Giovanni Paisiello - Finto il vero. Libretto. Italian

di Saverio Zini da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Nuovo nella primavera di quest'anno 1776 ; dedicata all'eccellentissimo signore D. Giovanni Caracciolo de' prencipi di avellino &c. &c. &c. (statement of responsibil... More

Fischerin. Libretto. Libretto. German

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Pages unnumbered throughout. Music by Corona Schröter--New Grove. Date of performance surmised from imprint. Performers' names not given. Performance: Tiefurth, Natürlicher Schauplat... More

Verità in cimento. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Milano

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; dedication, signed: Diomedo Lizzapa--p. 3-4; "Argomento"--p. 5-7; apology--p. 7; scene descriptions--p. 10. Alternate aria, "Il ciglio arciero," for act 1, scene 4 printe... More

Alcina. Libretto. Libretto. English & Italian. Performance: London

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; libretto in Italian and English on facing pages; title page, synopsis and cast list in English only; price on title page: One shilling; "The Argument"--verso of title pag... More

Giovanni Paisiello - Finto il vero. Libretto. Italian

di Saverio Zini da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Nuovo nella primavera di quest'anno 1776 ; dedicata all'eccellentissimo signore D. Giovanni Caracciolo de' prencipi di avellino &c. &c. &c. (statement of responsibil... More

Corona di sacre canzoni - Public domain music sheet scan

Elena. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; cover illustration; dedication, signed "Niccolò Minato"--p. [5]-[6]; foreword--p. [7]-[8]; "Argomento"--p. [9]-[12]; scene descriptions--p. [14]; "prologo"--p. [15]-[18].... More

Alcina. Libretto. Libretto. English & Italian. Performance: London

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; libretto in Italian and English on facing pages; title page, synopsis and cast list in English only; price on title page: One shilling; "The Argument"--verso of title pag... More

Verità in cimento. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Milano

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; dedication, signed: Diomedo Lizzapa--p. 3-4; "Argomento"--p. 5-7; apology--p. 7; scene descriptions--p. 10. Alternate aria, "Il ciglio arciero," for act 1, scene 4 printe... More

Artaserse. Libretto. Italian&German

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; opposite pages bear duplicate numbering; libretto in Italian and German on facing pages; added title page in Italian; "Argomento"/"Inhalt"--p. 3-4; scene descriptions--p.... More

Verità in cimento. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Milano

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; dedication, signed: Diomedo Lizzapa--p. 3-4; "Argomento"--p. 5-7; apology--p. 7; scene descriptions--p. 10. Alternate aria, "Il ciglio arciero," for act 1, scene 4 printe... More

Germanico sul Reno. Libretto. Libretto. Italian

di Giulio Cesare Corradi ; consacrato all'altezza sereniffima del Sig. prencipe di Monaco duca di Valentinese, pari di Francia &c. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; illustrat... More

Omphale. Libretto - Albert Schatz Opera Collection

Five acts; p. 46 misnumbered p. 52; legal notice--title page; "Prologue"--p. 5-9; censor's statement dated 19 décembre 1751--p. 60. "Les paroles sont de feu M. De La Mothe"--verso of title page. "La musique de ... More

Beggar's opera. Libretto. English. Performance: London

as written by John Gay ; distinguishing also the variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane ; regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins, promp... More

Polidore. Libretto - Albert Schatz Opera Collection

paroles de M. de Laserre ; musique de M. Baptistin. (statement of responsibility) "XCVIII. opera. Tome XIII." From Recueil Général des Opéras.

Il secondo libro delle canzonette a tre voci

Title from canto part. The three parts, canto, tenore and basse, bound in one volume.

Il trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei ...

Secular part songs, unaccompanied. Title from canto. Parts for canto, alto, tenore, quinto, sesto, and basso. Each part contains the dedication (verso of title page), signed by the publisher and inscribed to Le... More

Libro primo di Villanelle à 1, 2 et 3 uoci accommodate per qualsiuogl...

LC copy bound with: Libro primo di arie passeggiate à vna voce con l'intavolatura del chitarone. Roma, 1612. DLC

Motetti op. 3 - Public domain music sheet scan

Motetti op. 3 - Public domain music sheet scan

Arien, musical notation - Public domain music sheet scan

Principally for voice (s) and continuo. Title from v. 1. v. 1, 1646; v. 2, 1651; v. 3, 1651; v. 4, 1651; v. 5 1661; v. 6, 1645; v. 7, 1648; v. 8, 1650. RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), A/... More

Il primo libro delle fiamme vaghi et dilettevoli madrigali dell'eccel...

Title from canto part. Twenty-five madrigals for canto, alto, tenore, basso, and quinto. Index by the first line of last page of canto and quinto part. The parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto in one volume.

Messa… op. 6 - Public domain music sheet scan

Rest von Polnischen und andern Täntzen nach Art , wie im Venusgarten ...

Title from cantus part. Parts for cantus, altus, tenor, bassus, and quinta vox.

Rest von Polnischen und andern Täntzen nach Art , wie im Venusgarten ...

Title from cantus part. Parts for cantus, altus, tenor, bassus, and quinta vox.

Salmi di compieta a trè e quattro voci concertati, con violini e ripi...

Parts for canto, alto, tenore, basso concertato, canto ripieno, alto ripieno, tenore ripieno, and basso ripieno, violino primo and secondo, violone o viola, and organo. First published 1691. Latin texts. (langu... More

Salmi di compieta a trè e quattro voci concertati, con violini e ripi...

Parts for canto, alto, tenore, basso concertato, canto ripieno, alto ripieno, tenore ripieno, and basso ripieno, violino primo and secondo, violone o viola, and organo. First published 1691. Latin texts. (langu... More

Secundo libro di Salmi… - Public domain music sheet scan

Secundo libro di Salmi… - Public domain music sheet scan

Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress a...

Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress a...

Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Madrigali di Verdelot a sei insieme altri madrigali de diversi eccelle...

Title from canto part. The collation of canto, alto, tenore, basso, quinto and sesto is the same: T.p. 30 p. and 1 unumbered p. of index, which, however, has been omitted in the basso. The signatures run consec... More

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lie...

componirt durch Jacobum Regnart röm. key. maiestat. &c. musicum und vice Capellnmeister. (statement of responsibility) For discantus, altus, tenor, vagans, and bassus. Title from bassus part. Part for tenor co... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Modvlationvm, quinque vocum liber secvndvs - renaissance music

Sacred part songs. Title from cantvs part. Title vignette (printer's mark); part for quintus bears a different mark. Parts for cantus (21, [1] p.), altus (21, [1] p.), tenor (21, [1] p.), bassus (22 p.), and qu... More

Modvlationvm, quinque vocum liber secvndvs - renaissance music

Sacred part songs. Title from cantvs part. Title vignette (printer's mark); part for quintus bears a different mark. Parts for cantus (21, [1] p.), altus (21, [1] p.), tenor (21, [1] p.), bassus (22 p.), and qu... More

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci

Title from canto part. First published in 1581. Parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto, bound in 1 v.

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci

Title from canto part. First published in 1581. Parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto, bound in 1 v.

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinqve voci

Title from canto part. The canto, tenore, alto, basso and quinto parts bound in one volume.

Secondo libro de madrigali senza nome a cinque voci

By Alfonso Fontanelli; attribution from RISM. Parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto bound in one vol.

Newe teutsche weltliche Madrigalia und Balletten so wol mit lebendigen...

For discantvs, qvinta vox, altvs, tenor, and bassvs. Title from discantvs.

Newe teutsche weltliche Madrigalia und Balletten so wol mit lebendigen...

For discantvs, qvinta vox, altvs, tenor, and bassvs. Title from discantvs.

Partitura delli sei libri de' madrigali a 5 voci

Letter from Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg to a publisher, 6 December 1796

German In . (language)

Italian Renaissance court, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Public domain photo of Italian sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y., ca...

Wilmoth Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendircks, sometimes known as Edgar Leon Sinclair) Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in th... More

Correggio - The marriage of St. Catherine

Print shows St. Catherine kneeling next to the infant Jesus seated on his mother's lap. Jesus gives Catherine a ring. Anonymous artist after Correggio. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, ... More

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 8]

Plate 8 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 9]

Plate 9 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

Engelberta. Libretto. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Five acts; p. 54-55 presumably filmed twice; "Con licenza de' superiori, e privilegio"--title page; dedication--p. [3]-[10]; "Argomento"--p. [11]-[12]; "Mutazioni"--p. [14]. Music by... More

Zenobia Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

di Mattio Noris ; da rappresentarsi nel'Teatro di San Cassano l'anno 1666 ; dedicata all'Illust. et Eccell. Sign. il signor Filippo Giuliano Mazarini Mancini dvca di Nivers, e Donziois ... (statement of respons... More