Hai rotto e sciolto e spento (Carlo Gesualdo)

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(Posted 2018-02-19) CPDL #48862:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-02-19). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 70 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #26774, with minor corrections to the underlay, and to slurring. The Alto 2 and Tenor have exactly the same range, so this edition is set for SATTB, transposed down a major 2nd.

(Posted 2014-12-27) CPDL #33899:

Editor: Christos Christodoulou (submitted 2014-12-27). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 69 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

(Posted 2013-12-16) CPDL #30795:

Editor: Christopher Boveroux (submitted 2013-12-16). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 1.62 MB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

(Posted 2013-12-02) CPDL #30684:

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (submitted 2013-12-02). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 77 kB Copyright: Personal

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(Posted 2012-07-18) CPDL #26774:

Editor: Bruce Paterson (submitted 2012-07-15). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 108 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Edition made on Sibelius directly from original part book copies.

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

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A4, 4 pages, 70 kB; CPDL #48862; editor: James Gibb
A4, 7 pages, 69 kB; CPDL #33899; editor: Christos Christodoulou
Letter, 8 pages, 1.62 MB; CPDL #30795; editor: Christopher Boveroux
A4, 5 pages, 108 kB; CPDL #26774; editor: Bruce Paterson

General Information

Title: Hai rotto e sciolto e spento
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 5vv Voicings: SAATB or SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1594 in Madrigali a 5 voci, libro secondo, no. 3
Description: 3rd Madrigal in Gesualdo's Second Book of Madrigals 1594

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Original text and translations

Italian text

Hai rotto e sciolto e spento a poco a poco
lo strale, il laccio e’l foco,
che punse e che legò, ch’arse il mio core.
O me beato, Amore,
ch’or sento, e senza pena,
altro dardo, altra fiamma, altra catena.

English translation

Little by little you have broken and loosed and quenched
the arrow, the bond and the fire,
which stung and held and burned my heart.
O how happy I am, Love,
that now I feel, without pain,
another dart, another flame, another chain.

Translation from #26774