Felice me, se nel morir (Francesco Eredi)

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• (Posted 2021-04-29)  CPDL #64243:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2021-04-29).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 335 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Felice me, se nel morir
Composer: Francesco Eredi
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1629 in L'Armida del Tasso, no. 13
Description: This madrigal is Part 4 of 10 madrigals, as can be seen in L'Armida del Tasso

Original text and translations

Italian text Felice me, se nel morir non reco Questa mia peste ad infettar l'Inferno. Restine Amor; venga sol sdegno or meco , E sia dell'ombra mìa compagno eterno: O ritorni con lui dal regno cieco A colui, che di me fè l'empio scherno: E se gli mostri tal, che'n fere notti Abbia riposi orribili, e interrotti. Gerusalemme liberata 20/126

English translation "And happy me if, being dead and slain,  I bear not with me this strange plague to hell:  Love, stay behind, come thou with me disdain,  And with my wronged soul forever dwell;  Or else with it turn to the world again  And vex that knight with dreams and visions fell,  And tell him, when twixt life and death I strove  My last wish, was revenge—last word, was love." Translated by Edward Fairfax (1560-1635)