Quando mirai sta bella faccia d'oro (Giovanni Ferretti)

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• (Posted 2020-09-23)  CPDL #60657:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2020-09-23).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 366 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Quando mirai sa bella faccia d'oro
The sources show the text "... Ssa bella ...", other sources have "sa bella",but "sta bella" better fits the rest of the text.

Composer: Giovanni Ferretti
Lyricist:

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1573 in Il primo libro delle canzoni alla napolitana a sei voci (Giovanni Ferretti), no. 19, p. 21
    2nd published: 1576 in Il primo libro delle canzoni alla napolitana a sei voci, 2nd. printing, no. 19, p. 21
    3rd published: 1585 in Symphonia angelica, Edition 1, no. 58
    4th published: 1589 in Gemmae musicalis Liber Secundus, no. 34
    5th published: 1592 in Pratum musicum (ed. Emanuel Adriaenssen) – arr. for two voices and lute, Edition 2, no. 32
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Original text and translations

Italian text Quando mirai sta bella faccia d'oro, Con s'occhi ladri mi rubasti il core, Dammi lo core o ladra del mio core.

German translation Als ich dies schöne goldene Gesicht betrachtete, stahlst du mir mit deinen diebischen Augen das Herz. Gib mir das Herz zurück, o Diebin meines Herzens. Translation by Gerhard Weydt

English translation When I looked at this beautiful golden face, you stole my heart with your thievish eyes. Give back the heart,o thief of my heart. Translation by Gerhard Weydt