Cantan fra rami (Vincenzo Ruffo)
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CPDL #34253:
- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-11). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 78 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.
- CPDL #31650: Finale 2008
- Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2014-04-12). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 100 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Cantan fra rami
Composer: Vincenzo Ruffo
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto from Orlando furioso, canto XXXV, ottava 50
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1585 in Il primo libro di madregali cromatici (Gardano press, Venice)
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Cantan fra rami gl'augeletti vaghi,
azuri e bianchi, rossi, verdi e gialli
mormoranti ruiscelli e chetti laghi
de limpidezza vincon' i cristalli,
una dolc' aura che ti par che vaghi,
a un modo sempre e dal suo stil non falli,
facea si l'aria tremolar d'intorno
che non potra noiar calor del giorno.
English translation
By whom he is beloved can no one know,
Who on the top of Fortune's wheel is seated;
Since he, by true and faithless friends, with show
Of equal faith, in glad estate is greeted.
But, should felicity be changed to woe,
The flattering multitude is turned and fleeted!
While he who loves his master from his heart,
Even after death performs his faithful part.
- by William Rose (1775-1843)