Il dì che di pallor (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2023-01-08)  CPDL #72184:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-01-08).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: Il dì che di pallor
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Cristoforo Castelletti
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1584 in Libro primo de madrigali spirituali (Luca Marenzio), no. 4
Description: 

Original text and translations

Italian text Il dì che di pallor la faccia tinse e che di bruna veste il sol coverse il bel carro lucente, sì gran pietà del suo fattor lo strinse: la Madre afflitta e mesta ch'a l'orrendo spettacolo presente, vide il Figlio innocente dalle mani, da' piedi, e dalla fronte versar vermiglio fonte, da ferro di soverchio alto dolore; sentì passarsi acerbamente il core.

English translation The day that his pale face tinted and clad itself in dark garb, the sun covered its beautiful shining chariot, such great pity for its creator took hold of it: The Mother, afflicted and sad, who at the horrid spectacle presented, witnessed her innocent Son, from whom his hands, his feet and brow pour out vermillian founts from the iron, in unbridled pain; She felt her heart bitingly pierced. Translation by Allen Garvin