Palestrina's Guando dal terzo cielois the final composition in a collection of madrigals entitled "Il trionfo di Dori." Each madrigal is scored for six voices and each ends with the text "Viva la bella Dori" (Long live fair Dori). This late sixteenth-century collection of madrigals enjoyed great success and was the model of the famous English collection of madrigals entitled, "The Triumphes of Oriana."

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