This volume includes the madrigals from Gabrieli's Secondo libro a 6 (1580), other six-voice madrigals by Gabrieli that survive various late-sixteenth-century madrigal anthologies, and three seven-voice madrigals. The six-voice works were some of the most widely transcribed of all Gabrieli’s madrigals, both for lute and as spiritual madrigals, and the seven-voice madrigals are exemplary of the musical dialogues popular in late sixteenth-century Italy.