Pagina secunda carminis O dolcezz'amarissime d'amore, seriem cursuum inter tres partes supranorum cum succentu continet. Musica in tribus clavibus supranis (contra claves triplas) scribitur et notas tricensimas secundas vehementius dicit.Scudi?aurei sodalibus concerto delle donne repraesentati sunt. Tales nummi, pro curia Hestensi signati, erant communes in Dicione Pontificia.Quintus Liber Madrigalium pro quinque vocibus a Luzzasco Luzzaschi compositus (Ferrariae, 1595), impressioni Victorii Baldini et praesidio Alphonsi II Hestensis gratias agit.
Origines consortis erant in grege purpuratorum gravissimorum qui pro se intra musicam secretam ducis annis fere 1570/1580 haud sollemni more perfungebantur. Consors tum factus est grex professionalium musicorum feminorum, concerto delle donne, qui concentus pro personis interioris curiae circuli hospitibusque magni momenti praebuerunt. Eorum modus usitatus, qui concentum floridum et ornamentatissimum vehementius dixit, Ferrariam gloriá adfecit, compositoresque illius temporis penitus movit.
Concerto delle donne statum mulierum in musica professionali incitavit, et locum curiae Hestensis ut situs musicus continuavit. Consors conditus in profana musica Italica saeculo sexto decimi exeunte fuit gravissima res, musicaeque res mutatae in curia institutae magnam partem in evolutione madrigalis et deinde secunda practica egerunt.[2]
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