Ah dolente partita (Giovanni Battista de Bellis)

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  • (Posted 2018-09-08)  CPDL #51254:         
Editor: Wim Looyestijn (submitted 2018-09-08).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Ah dolente partita
Composer: Giovanni Battista de Bellis
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1608 in Il primo libro de Madrigali à cinque Voci. Napoli
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Ah, dolente partita!
ah, fin de la mia vita!
da te parto e non moro?
E pur i provo
la pena de la morte
e sento nel partire
un vivace morire,
che da vita al dolore
per far che moia immortalmente il core

English.png English translation

Ah, painful parting!
Ah, end of my life!
From thee I leave and I don't die?
But I feel
The pain of death
And I feel on leaving
A lively dying,
Which gives life to pain
To let my heart immortally die.

Dutch.png Dutch translation

O, smartelijk afscheid!
O, eind van van leven!
U te verlaten en niet sterven?
Toch ervaar ik
de pijn van de dood
en voel ik in het afscheid
een levendig sterven,
dat het leven pijnlijk maakt,
en mijn hart onsterfelijk doodt.