Deh, avesse Amor così (Claudio Merulo)

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• (Posted 2024-09-17)  CPDL #82002:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-09-17).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: transposed down a 4th.

• (Posted 2024-09-17)  CPDL #82001:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-09-17).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Original high clefs.

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Title: Deh, avesse Amor così
Composer: Claudio Merulo
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso, Canto 45, ottava 33.
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1580 in Il primo libro de madrigali a tre voci, no. 13
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Original text and translations

Italian text Deh, avesse Amor così nei pensier miei il tuo pensier, come ci ha il viso sculto! Io son ben certa che lo troverei palese tal, qual io lo stimo occulto; e che sì fuor di gelosia sarei, ch'ad or ad or non mi farebbe insulto; e dove a pena or è da me respinta, rimarria morta, non che rotta e vinta.

English translation Ah, if Love would but show me your thought As it has shown me your handsome face! Then I am certain I would find, unsought, Such revealed as all such thoughts efface, And, thus, be quit of Jealousy, as I ought, That would not so harass me, in this place. For she, whose expulsion costs me great pain, Would not be routed merely, but be slain. Translation by Anthony S. Kline ©