Canto delle Palle (Anonymous)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Composition Year	XVI century
Genre Categories	Songs; For 4 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Italian language; For 4 voices (arr); For unaccompanied voices (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr)

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Arranger	Guido Menestrina
Publisher. Info.	Guido Menestrina
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	Retranscribed from Feste musicali della Firenze medicea : 1480-1589 / a cura di Federico GhisiFirenze : Vallecchi, 1939.
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Work Title	Canto delle Palle
Alternative. Title	Stemma Mediceo
Composer	Anonymous
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IA 99
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	XVI century
Language	Italian
Dedication	Medici Family
Average DurationAvg. Duration	3 minutes
Piece Style	Renaissance
Instrumentation	4 voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)

Originally for Cantus / Contra (in alto clef) / Tenor / Bassus
Hymn to glorify the Medici family and their power in Tuscany. The many times repeated word "palle" (balls) refers to the Medici's coat-of-arms, containing 6 balls.
Here's the full text: Ecco dea admirata dalla celeste voce di palle, palle, palle, palle, già tanto disiata, di quella sol hor prende el suo diletto et coll'ardente petto per ogni via et loco, per ogni monte e valle risponde palle, palle, palle, palle, palle, per satisfar a fatti, agli huomini, agli dei, a tutte l'altre voci è fatta muta, et con sonora tromba sol clama, sol rimbomba: palle, palle, palle, palle, palle, palle, palle, palle, palle, palle.