Mentre costui così s'affligge e duole (Jacquet de Berchem)
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
File details | |
Help |
CPDL #34248:
- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-11). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 83 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.
General Information
Title: Mentre costui così s’affligge e duole
Composer: Jacquet de Berchem
Lyricists: Ludovico Ariosto and William Stewart Rose (translator)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1561
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
Italian text
Mentre costui così s’affligge e duole,
e fa degli occhi suoi tepida fonte,
e dice queste e molte altre parole,
che non mi par bisogno esser racconte;
l’aventurosa sua fortuna vuole
ch’alle orecchie d’Angelica sian conte:
e così quel ne viene a un’ora, a un punto,
ch’in mille anni o mai più non è raggiunto.
English translation
While Sacripant laments him in this plight,
And makes a tepid fountain of his eyes;
And, what I deem not needful to recite,
Pours forth yet other plaints and piteous cries;
Propitious Fortune will his lady bright
Should hear the youth lament him in such wise:
And thus a moment compassed what, without
Such chance, long ages had not brought about.
- by William Rose (1775-1843)