Pensoso più d'un'ora a capo basso (Sessa d'Aranda)

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• (Posted 2019-01-06)  CPDL #52829:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2019-01-06).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: Pensoso più d’un’ora a capo basso
Composer: Sessa d'Aranda
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto , Orlando Furioso, Canto I, ottava 40

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1571 in Il Primo Libro de madrigali a quattro voci, no. 11
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Original text and translations

Italian text Pensoso più d’un’ora a capo basso stette, Signore, il cavallier dolente; poi cominciò con suono afflitto e lasso a lamentarsi sì soavemente, ch’avrebbe di pietà spezzato un sasso, una tigre crudel fatta clemente. Sospirando piangea, tal ch’un ruscello parean le guancie, e ’l petto un Mongibello.

English translation Pensive, above an hour, with drooping head, He rested mute, ere he began his moan; And then his piteous tale of sorrow said, Lamenting in so soft and sweet a tone, He in a tiger's breast had pity bred, Or with his mournful wailings rent a stone. And so he sighed and wept; like rivers flowed His tears, his bosom like an Aetna glowed. Translation by William Stewart Rose