Ch'ami la mia vita (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• (Posted 2014-06-30)  CPDL #32367:       

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-06-30).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 96 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key.

• (Posted 2014-06-30)  CPDL #32366:       

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-06-30).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 97 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A fourth down according to chiavette convention

• (Posted 2012-12-02)  CPDL #27692:        (MuP)

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2012-12-02).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 43 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: Measure 37, Tenore should read "non la vi-ta", rather than "non la mia vi"

• (Posted 2010-06-03)  CPDL #21730:       

Editor: Lewis Jones (submitted 2010-06-03).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Down a fifth according to chiavette transposition.

• (Posted 2001-04-02)  CPDL #02448:   

Editor: Nicola Fiorino (submitted 2001-04-02).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 172 kB    Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Ch'io ami la mia vita
(abreviated "Ch'ami" in underlay but not in 1607 title index) Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SSATB or ATTBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Claudio Monteverdi), no. 1
Description: 

Original text and translations

Italian text Ch'ami la vita mia nel tuo bel nome Par che si legg'ogn'hora Ma tu voi pur ch'io mora. Se'l ver porti in te scritto, Acqueta co'i begli occhi il cor afflitto, Acciò letto non sia Ch'ami la morte e non la vita mia.

English translation I read your love every day in your lovely name, and yet you want me to die. If you have the truth written in you, soothe my wounded heart with your beautiful eyes, so no one will read “I love death” instead of “life.” NOTE: “Ch'ami la” hides the name “Camilla” Translation by Nicholas Jones