Donna, s'io miro voi, giaccio divengo (Claudio Monteverdi)

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CPDL #27669:    MUP 

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2012-11-28).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 34 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Donna, s’io miro voi, ghiaccio divengo
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1587

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Italian text

Donna s'io miro voi, ghiaccio divengo,
Si di mirar m'astengo
D'un infinito ardore
mi si consuma il core.
Non so che m'abbi luoco :
Mirar m'è ghiaccio, non mirar m'è fuoco.

English translation by Mick Swithinbank

I need but look at you to pay the price:
Upon the instant I am turned to ice.
No remedy to turn aside my gaze –
Unfailingly I feel my heart ablaze.
I am lost whichever way I turn:
Look, and I freeze, yet otherwise I burn.