Baci soavi e cari (Carlo Gesualdo)
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Finale-2008
- Editor: Carlos Augusto P. Mourão (added 2008-03-31) Score information: A4, 4 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Edition by Daniel Harmer: "The time signature varies through 4/2, 2/2 and 6/2. This made it virtually impossible to use with parts. The time signature is now 4/2 throughout. No other changes were made."
General Information
Title: Baci soavi e cari (Prima Parte)
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Il Primo Libro di Madrigali - 1594
Description:
External websites: Parts for individual voices and an adaptation for recorders
Original text and translations
Italian text
Baci soavi e cari,
Cibi de la mia vita,
C'or m'involate, or mi rendete il core.
Per voi convien ch'impari
Come un'alma rapita
Non sente il duol di morte
E pur si more.
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
Sweet kisses, so dear to me,
Nourishment of my life –
That life which you are now stealing from me –
Now, sweet kisses, you are giving me back my heart.
Because of you I must learn
How a soul which is sundered from the body
Feels not the pain of death
Though its owner die.