Qual vive Salamandra in fiamma ardente (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2020-05-14)  CPDL #58601:     

Editor: Marcos Mato (submitted 2020-05-14).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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• (Posted 2018-11-14)  CPDL #51954:    

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2018-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Qual vive Salamandra in fiamma ardente
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Giusto de' Conti^{create page}

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1581 in Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 4
    2nd published: 1583 in Harmonia celeste, Edition 1, no. 39
    3rd published: 1589 in Harmonia celeste, Edition 2, no. 39
    4th published: 1589 in Gemmae musicalis Liber Secundus, no. 18
    5th published: 1592 in Pratum musicum (ed. Emanuel Adriaenssen) – arr. for two voices and lute, Edition 2, no. 7
    6th published: 1594 in Madrigali a sei voci in un corpo ridotti, no. 14
    7th published: 1609 in Hortus musicalis (ed. Michael Herrer) – sacred contrafact, Book 2, no. 21
Description: Ut vivit Salamandra is a sacred contrafact of this work by Simone Molinaro, published in his Fatiche Spirituali of 1610.

Original text and translations

Italian text

Qual vive Salamandra in fiamma ardente
E ne gioisce poi,
Così il mio core in voi
Che la suo fiamma sete assai lucente,
Ardendo ha vita e duol alcun non sente.
O che felice sorte,
Viver in fiamma e non haver la morte.