Vivrò dunque lontano (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2022-12-11)  CPDL #71864:         

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2022-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2017-09-30)  CPDL #46538:         

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2017-09-30).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 351 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down one note from G-dorian.

General Information

Title: Vivrò dunque lontano
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist:

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1591 in Il quinto libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 21
    2nd published: 1594 in Madrigali a sei voci in un corpo ridotti, no. 8
    3rd published: 1597 in Musica Transalpina (ed. Nicholas Yonge) – in English translation, Edition 2, no. 20
Description: A te longe ne vivam is a sacred contrafact of this work by Simone Molinaro, published in his Fatiche Spirituali of 1610.

Original text and translations

Italian text

Vivrò dunque lontano,
Da te mio chiaro sol mio dolce bene,
Vivendo sempre in pene,
Ah non fia ver ch'ogn' hor m'ancida il duolo,
Eccoti l'alma à volo,
Acciò se per dolor dee venir meno,
Languisca e mora almen nel tuo bel seno.