Dunque romper la fè (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2023-07-03)  CPDL #74467:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-07-03).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2017-06-09)  CPDL #44916:          (Finale 2014)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2017-06-09).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 295 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Dunque romper la fè
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1598 in L'ottavo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 2
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Original text and translations

Italian text Dunque romper la fè, dunque deggio io Lasciar Alcippo mio, l'anima mia? O pur deggio morir misera in prima? S'io moro, ohime! quanto martir, Alcippo, Partendomi da te, dolente havrai? Forse vorrai seguirmi: ahi, che più temo L'incerta tua, che la mia certa morte. Ma s'io poi resto in quest’ amara vita, Esser potrò d'altrui, se non d'Alcippo? Ah, chè meglio è morir, mora Amarilli, E viva la sua fede; e sia quel letto, Ch'è fatto a brevi sonni et a diletti, A me d'affanni e di perpetuo sonno.

English translation Must I then break faith, leave my Alcippus, my very soul? Or should I, miserable, die first? If I die, how much pain, Alcippus, shall you suffer as I leave you? Mayhap you'll want to follow me: ah! I fear the uncertainty of your death much more than mine, which is certain! But then again, if I remain in this bitter life, coul I be anyone else's but Alcippus’? Since it is better to die, let Amaryllis die and her faithfulness live; and may that bed, which was made for short slumbers and for pleasures, be for me one of woes and perpetual sleep. Translation by Campelli