Come dolce oggi (Claudio Monteverdi)

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CPDL #11529: 

Editor: Gordon J. Callon (submitted 2006-04-22).   Score information: Double Letter, 5 pages, 154 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Come dolce oggi
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Larger work: Proserpina rapita

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSS

Genre: Secular, Opera, Aria

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: Madrigali e canzonette, Venice, 1651

Description: Come dolce oggi is the only surviving music from Monteverdi's lost opera, Proserpina rapita, composed and produced in Venice in 1630.

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Italian text

Come dolci oggi l’auretta
Spoira lusinga e vien
Lascivetta
A baciarmi le guancie’l sen.