Alba Trissina (fl. 1590) or Alba Tressina, was an Italian composer and nun. She was a Carmelite at the monastery of Santa Maria in Araceli in Vicenza, and studied with Leone Leoni, who also preserved and published four of her works. Leoni dedicated his Quarto Libro, 1622, to this pupil.
Works
Four motets for alto voice in Leoni's Sacri fiori: quarto libro de motettia are all of her compositions that survive.
- Vulnerasti cor meum A: her most noted work
- Quaemadmodum A
- In nomine Iesu AA
- Anima mea AAT
References
- L Johnson - 2009 Pain, Desire, and Unattainable Ecstasy in Alba Tressina's Vulnerasti Cor Meum "Little is known about the seventeenth-century musician and composer Alba Tressina, and even less is known about her musical career, since ..."
- HOASM: Alba Tressina "Italian composer and Carmelite nun at the convent of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Vicenza. Her only known works are found in a work by her teacher, Leone Leoni, ..."
- Vulnerasti cor meum - Artemisia Editions Archived 2017-10-10 at the Wayback Machine "Alba Tressina: 4 Motets (1-3 voices) & motets (2-4 voices and violins) by Leone Leoni (CC-05a)."
- Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale de Bologna, Conservatorio di musica "G.B. Martini.", Gaetano Gaspari, Federico Parisini - 1890 (A tergo del frontispizio sta impressa la dedicatoria che segue): Alla Molto Illustre e molto Reverenda S. Alba Tressina Monacha in Araceli di Vicenza. Signora Osseruandissìma. Sgombra la Musica, quasi come de smisi Regina, i noiosi ...
- Submitted by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel (1994). The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. The Macmillan Press Limited. ISBN 0-333-51598-6.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help) - Glickman, Sylvia; Schleifer, Martha Furman (2003). From convent to concert hall: a guide to women composers.
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