HENRY LAWES: In quel gelato core PDF SCORE

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Tavola: In quel gelato core. Composed by Henry Lawes (1596-1662). From Ayres and dialogues, London, 1653).
Evelyn Tubb, soprano
Anthony Rooley, lute
Lawes seems to have conceived an active dislike for Italian music; he once set the contents list of an Italian song book and then sat back, secretly smiling, while everybody praised it as a 'rare Italian song’: ‘And to make them a little sensible of this ridiculous humour, I took a Table or Index of old Italian Songs (for one, two, and three Voyces) and this Index (which read together made a strange medley of Non-sense). I set to a varyed Ayre, and gave out that it came from Italy, whereby it hath passed for a rare Italian Song. This very Song I have now here printed.’- Michael I. Wilson, Nicholas Lanier: Master of the King's Musick, 1994
The “index' in question is the table of contents (Tavola-most of it, anyway) from Antonio Cifra's Scherzi ed Arie (1614), beginning “In quel gelato core”, with the rubrics “una voce', “a due voci', etc., incorporated into the text. One imagines troubled passions in the declamatory passages, more equable feelings in the triple-time sections; but, of course, any correspondence of meaning between words and music is accidental.
There may be aesthetic problems, but for those in the know the mock heroics of the declamatory sections and the delightful irony of the triple-time passages must raise a smile. For the rest, what can one do with a song set to a nonsense text but sit back and enjoy it?- Ian Spink, Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter, 2000