Dirò d'Orlando in un medesmo tratto (Jacquet de Berchem)

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• (Posted 2015-01-11)  CPDL #34242:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-11).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.

General Information

Title: Dirò d’Orlando in un medesmo tratto
Composer: Jacquet de Berchem
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1561 in Primo secondo et terzo libro del capriccio, no. 2
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Original text and translations

Italian text Dirò d’Orlando in un medesmo tratto cosa non detta in prosa mai né in rima: che per amor venne in furore e matto, d’uom che sì saggio era stimato prima; se da colei che tal quasi m’ha fatto, che ’l poco ingegno ad or ad or mi lima, me ne sarà però tanto concesso, che mi basti a finir quanto ho promesso.

English translation In the same strain of Roland will I tell Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, On whom strange madness and rank fury fell, A man esteemed so wise in former time; If she, who to like cruel pass has well Nigh brought my feeble wit which fain would climb And hourly wastes my sense, concede me skill And strength my daring promise to fulfil. Translation by William Stewart Rose