I languish to complain me (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)
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- (Posted 2021-02-13) CPDL #62883:
- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-02-13). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 68 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth. Source: Madrigals to five voices, selected out of the best approved Italian authors by Thomas Morley, pub. Thomas East, 1598.
General Information
Title: I languish to complain me
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1587 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque, no. 8
2nd published: 1598 in Madrigals to five voices (ed. Thomas Morley) – English translation, no. 15
Description: A translation of Ferrabosco's madrigal 'Vorrei lagnarmi a pieno'.
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Original text and translations
English text
I languish to complain me with ghastly grief tormented.
I stand amazed to see you discontented.
Better I to hold my peace and covertly to stop my breath,
than cause my sorrows to increase and work my death.