Sù, sù, sù non piu dormir (Giovanni Ferretti)

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• (Posted 2020-09-30)  CPDL #60746:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2020-09-30).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 331 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Sù, sù, sù non piu dormir
Composer: Giovanni Ferretti
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Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1575 in Il secondo libro delle canzoni a sei voci, no. 7
    2nd published: 1609 in Hortus musicalis (ed. Michael Herrer) – sacred contrafact, Book 2, no. 23
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Original text and translations

Italian text Sù, sù, sù non piu dormir, che la notte se ne và! Deh dimmi, cor mio bel, che voi? Non dormir piu ch'io te'l dirò! Stringimi ben ch'io moro, dolce vita mia. Ahimè, non più, ché tu mi fai morire!

English translation Up, up, up, don't sleep anymore, for the night is flying! Tell me, my sweetheart, what do you want? Don't sleep anymore, and I will tell you. Squeeze me tightly, so that I die, my sweetheart. Ah, no more, you are making me die. (Tr. Ruth I. DeFord)