Lasso quand'io credei (Vittoria Aleotti)

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• (Posted 2023-03-13)  CPDL #73042: 

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (submitted 2023-03-13).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2017-08-19)  CPDL #45974:     

Editor: Amelia LeClair (submitted 2017-08-19).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Please credit Amelia LeClair in your printed programs

General Information

Title: Lasso quand'io credei
Composer: Vittoria Aleotti
Lyricist: Anonymous

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1593 in Ghirlanda de madrigali, no. 12
Description: There is no mensuration sign before the colored breves at "tenebrosa e oscura" but assuming a missing "3" "una selva" and "tenebrosa" would occupy the same time.

Original text and translations

Italian text Lasso, quand’io credei d’esser felice In una selva tenebrosa e oscura Mi ritrovai per me troppo infelice, Che così piacque a mia stella noiosa. E meno ancor mia vita aspra e penosa, E quasi ho svelt’il cuor da la radice, E quella a cui serv’io m’è ogn’or ritrosa, Nè il gridar vale, e favellar non lice.

English translation Alas, when I thought myself happy I found myself in a dark shadowy wood, much too unhappy for me for it so pleased my burdensome star, and I still lead my painful hard life, and my heart is nearly torn from its roots, and she whom I serve is always against me, and crying out is useless and speech forbidden. Translation by Amelia LeClair