Morte! Che voi? (Maddalena Casulana)

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• (Posted 2017-08-22)  CPDL #46031:        (Finale 2012)

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2017-08-22).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2013-01-05)  CPDL #27972:        (MuP)

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2013-01-05).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 27 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Morte! Che voi?
Composer: Maddalena Casulana
Lyricist: Serafino Aquilano^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1570 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a quattro voci, no. 6
Description: A dialogue between the lover and Death. Excerpted from a strambotto (8-line stanza) by Serafino Aquilano.

Original text and translations

Italian text – Morte! – Che vuoi? – Te chiamo. – Ecco, m’appresso. – Prendim’e fa che manchi il mio dolore. – Non puoi perch’in te non regna il core. – Sì fa! Sì fa! – No fa! Fatte’l restituire ché chi vita non ha non può morire.

English translation “Death!” “What do you want?” “Come here!” “Look, I’m here.” “Take me! make my pain go away!” “You can’t, because you don’t have your heart.” “Yes, I do!” “No, you don’t. Get it back. Anybody that lives without one can’t die.” Translation by Nicholas Jones