Dal gran pastor Idèo (Giovanni Contino)

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• (Posted 2025-03-07)  CPDL #84094:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 90 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Source files may be found on my github (linked from my CPDL profile).

General Information

Title: Dal gran pastor Idèo
Composer: Giovanni Contino
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: STTTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1557 in Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Cipriano de Rore), no. 15
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Original text and translations

Italian text Dal gran pastor Idèo vista e rapita la bella figlia che di Leda nacque cagion fu ch'indi in fiamme Troia giacque. Io, che sol col desio della beltà infinita d'Elena godo in un più fier ardore, tengo li spirti e'l core ch'al fin quel foco è stinto pur finio, ma ognor per farse eterno cresc'il mio.

English translation Seen and abducted by the great Idaean shepherd, the beautiful daughter born of Leda was the cause that set sleeping Troy aflame. I, with only desire for the infinite beauty of Helen enjoy an even fiercer passion, sustaining my spirit and heart, for in the end even that fire was extinguished, but mine, becoming eternal, yet grows. Translation by Allen Garvin