Io pensai dolce, e grato (Costanzo Porta)

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• (Posted 2023-08-27)  CPDL #75038:        (Lilypond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-08-27).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2016-08-10)  CPDL #40703:          (Finale 2014)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2016-08-10).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 263 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down one note from G-dorian.

• (Posted 2014-03-12)  CPDL #31485:      (XML)

Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2014-03-12).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The source (MusicXML) file is zipped.

General Information

Title: Io pensai dolce, e grato
Composer: Costanzo Porta
Lyricist:

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1582 in Il Lauro secco (Vittorio Baldini), no. 3
Description: The notes' values and the accidentals are as in the original edition.

Original text and translations

Italian text

Io pensai dolce, e grato
Quel dispietato Alloro,
Che nacque già d'un cor crudel'e ingrato.
Sperai frutti maturi,
Da cui sempre li rende acerbi, e duri;
Nè stimai, che d'Amor le freccie d'oro
Là folgorassin, dove
Mai non saetta Giove.
(Ahi troppo grave errore)
Ma colpa mia non fù più, che d'Amore.