Editorial

Abstract

The third issue of Analitica (September 2001) features an article by Marco Mangani dealing with some important aspects of analysis methodology with reference to a specific repertory from the late sixteenth century. Basing his analysis on collections of three-part canzonette written in Mantua between 1585 and 1607, the Author proposes a particular multi-level approach to segmentation. After breaking up the verbal text into textual segments, the polyphonic segments are identified (i.e. the way the composer has distributed the text) and the main cadential mechanisms of each single episode are then determined.