Saltavan ninfe, satiri e pastori (Orazio Vecchi)

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  • (Posted 2020-05-31)  CPDL #58944:         
Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2020-05-31).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Saltavan ninfe, satiri e pastori
Composer: Orazio Vecchi
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Canzonette Libro I a 6 voci (Venezia, 1587)
    2nd published: 1590 in Gemmae musicalis Liber Tertius, no. 9
Description: Cantabant Domino in celo is a sacred contrafact of this work by Simone Molinaro, published in his Fatiche Spirituali of 1610.

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Saltavan ninfe, satiri e pastori
Fra gli odorati fiori,
E cantando dicean Viva l’amore
Ch’in un moment’ impiag’ e san’ il core..

German.png German translation

Es tanzten Nymphen, Satyrn und Hirten
zwischen den duftenden Blumen,
und singend riefen sie aus: Es lebe die Liebe,
die zugleich das Herz verwundet und heilt.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt