Pianto — the motif of a descending minor second, represented laments and associated textually with weeping, sighing, or pain, grief, etc.
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# Pianto della Madonna - 1:46 - (Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), from the collection of sacred music "Selva morale e spirituale" (1640))
A spiritual madrigal M'empio gli occhi di pianto, to a text by Angelo Grillo, appeared in 1604, and the final work, published after his death, is Jesu decus angelicum for four voices and organ.
He also painted two altarpieces, a Crucifixion and a Circumcision (attributed) for the Sanctuary della Madonna del Pianto in Ono Degno, near Pertica Bassa.