Perchè fuggi? (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• (Posted 2014-08-03)  CPDL #32592:       

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-08-03).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 95 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2009-05-06)  CPDL #19419:       

Editor: Björn Sothmann (submitted 2009-05-06).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 362 kB   Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

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General Information

Title: Perchè fuggi?
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Giambattista Marino

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: TT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1619 in Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali (Claudio Monteverdi), no. 12
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Original text and translations

Italian text Perché fuggi tra salci, ritrosetta ma bella, o cruda tra le crude pastorella? Perché un bacio ti tolsi? Miser più che felice, corsi per sugger vita, e mor te colsi. Quel bacio che m’ha morto, tra le rose d’amor pungente spina, fu più vendetta tua che mia rapina.

English translation Why do you flee amongst the willows, reluctant but beautiful, oh cruel, oh cruellest shepherdess? Because I stole a kiss? More wretched than happy I pursued you to taste life and found death instead. That kiss killed me, amongst the prickly thorns of Love’s roses, was more your vengeance than my plunder.