Mille volte il di (Carlo Gesualdo)

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• (Posted 2018-08-28)  CPDL #51046:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-08-28).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #5026, with minor corrections to the underlay. Musica ficta are editorial.

• (Posted 2003-05-12)  CPDL #05026: 

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2003-05-12).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 240 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: revised May 28, 2004.

General Information

Title: Mille volte il di
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1611 in Madrigali a 5 voci, libro sesto, no. 7
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• Facsimile: Partitvra delli sei libri de’ Madrigali a cinqve voci — Madrigals Books I – VI (Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1613) – large download, 70 MB, 492pp

Original text and translations

Italian text Mille volte il dì, mòro e voi, empi sospiri, non fate, ohimè, che, in sospirando, io spiri! E tu, alma crudele, se il mio duolo t’affligge sì, ché non te n’ fuggi a volo? Ahi, che sol Morte a mio duòl aspro e rio divien pietosa e ancide il viver mio! Così dunque i sospiri e l’alma mia sono vèr me spietati, e Morte pia.

English translation A thousand times a day I die and you, wicked sighs, you do not let me, alas!, from sighing die! And you, cruel soul, if my pain afflicts you so, why don't you fly away? Ah! would only Death grow merciful of my bitter and cruel pain, and kill me! Such it is, thus, that my sighs and soul are pitiless towards me, whilst Death is merciful. Translation by Campelli