Si fe cristallo (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2013-08-22)  CPDL #29924:        (Finale 2008)

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2013-08-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Si fe cristallo
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1555 in Le quatoirsiesme livre a 4 parties, no. 1.4
    2nd published: 1560 in Madrigali a 4 voci, libro primo, no. 5.4
Description: This is the fourth part of the six-part madrigal set that opens Orlando di Lasso's first publication. The full set:

1. Del freddo Rheno
2. Ch'il credera
3. Rotava et e pur ver
4. Si fe cristallo
5. Et io qual fui
6. Hor su la nuda terra

Original text and translations

See the text and translation for full poem at: Del freddo Rheno a la sinistra riva.

Italian text Fourth stanza: Si fe cristallo il fiume e'n tale stato, scorse fin giù nel fond'il chiaro foco e adorno di smeraldi in vece d'herbe adorò con le nimphe il nuovo sole io'l so ch'il vidi, e'l San l'onde e la riva ch'anno da indi in qua concento e voce.

English translation Fourth stanza: The river turned into crystal, and in this state its clearest flames flowed all the way down, adorned with emeralds instead of grass, I adored with the nymphs the new sun: I know who I beheld, and the saint of waves and shore from that year forth there gave harmony and voice.