Perché adoprar catene (Luca Marenzio)

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(Posted 2023-04-09) CPDL #73408: (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-04-09). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 82 kB Copyright: CC BY NC

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(Posted 2021-05-16) CPDL #64431:

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2021-05-16). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 168 kB Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Perché adoprar catene
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Mutio Manfredi in "Cento Donne, cantate da Mutio Manfredi", Parma 1580
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1583 Li amorosi ardori, no. 11
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Original text and translations

The Italian text is printed as in the "Cento Donne" by Manfredi, including the capitalization of the parts of the name of the dedicatee of the poem.

Italian text

Perché adoprar catene,
Se preso il cor vostra beltà mi TIENE?
Quella beltà, C’A MILL’A mille i nodi
Tesse, e dovunque splende,
In disusati modi,
Con mille, e mille fiamme i cori accende.
Bastan le chiome d’oro, e gli occhi ardenti
Per legare, e infiammar tutte le genti.

La poesia è dedicata a la Signora Camilla Tieni Mosti.

German translation

Warum Ketten verwenden,
wenn eure Schönheit mein Herz gefangen hält?
Die Schönheit, die zu Tausenden die Knoten
knüpft, und die, wo sie auch immer glänzt,
in ungewöhnlicher Weise
mit abertausend Flammen die Herzen entzündet.
Es genügen die goldenen Locken und die strahlenden Augen,
um alle Leute zu binden und zu entflammen.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt

English translation

Why use chains,
if your beauty keeps my heart imprisoned?
That beauty, that ties knots by the thousands,
and, wherever it shines,
in unusual modes
inflames the hearts with thousands and thousands of flames.
Sufficient are the golden braids and the bright eyes
to bind an inflame all people.