Donò Cinzia a Damone (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2023-04-23)  CPDL #73558:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-04-23).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2018-02-26)  CPDL #48927:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-02-26).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #18776, with minor adjustments to the underlay.

• (Posted 2009-01-20)  CPDL #18776:     

Editors: Phillip Grow and R. Satterthwaite (submitted 2009-01-20).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 32 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key.

General Information

Title: Donò Cinzia a Damone
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1585 in Il terzo libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 10
    2nd published: 1594 in Madrigali a sei voci in un corpo ridotti, no. 56
Description: Quae sunt O rex is a sacred contrafact of this work by Simone Molinaro, published in his Fatiche Spirituali of 1610.

Original text and translations

Italian text Donò Cinzia a Damone Una rosa, cred'io, di paradiso E si vermiglia in viso Donandola si fece e sì vezzosa Che parea rosa che donasse rosa. Allor disse il pastore, Con un sospir d'amore, Perché degno non sono d'aver la rosa donatrice in dono?

English translation Cinzia gave Damone a rose, from paradise I believe, and in so doing blushed in such a way and looked so charming that it seemed as if one rose were presenting another. Then the shepherd said with a lovelorn sigh, ‘Why am I not worthy to have the rose that is doing the giving?’ Translation by Mick Swithinbank