Taglio lo scritto e’l sasso, e sin al cielo (Jacquet de Berchem)

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• (Posted 2022-09-05)  CPDL #70695:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2022-09-05).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: Taglio lo scritto e’l sasso, e sin al cielo
Composer: Jacquet de Berchem
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1561 in Primo secondo et terzo libro del capriccio (Venice: Antonio Gardano press), no. 28
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Original text and translations

Italian text Tagliò lo scritto e ’l sasso, e sin al cielo a volo alzar fe’ le minute schegge. Infelice quell’antro, et ogni stelo in cui Medoro e Angelica si legge! Così restar quel dì, ch’ombra né gielo a pastor mai non daran più, né a gregge: e quella fonte, già sì chiara e pura, da cotanta ira fu poco sicura.

English translation Cleft through the writing; and the solid block, Into the sky, in tiny fragments sped. Woe worth each sapling and the caverned rock, Where Medore and Angelica were read! So scathed, that they to shepherd or to flock Thenceforth shall never furnish shade or bed. And that sweet fountain, late so clear and pure, From such tempestuous wrath was ill secure. Translation by William Rose (1775-1843