Questa crudele e pia (Carlo Gesualdo)

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Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2004-06-15).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 69 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Questa crudele e pia
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Il Quatro Libro di Madrigali - 1596

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Questa crudele e pia
Piange al mio pianto e duolse al mio dolore,
Ma non arde l'ardore.
Tu, senza amor pietosa,
sia pur a tuo voler anco sdegnosa
Ché amor de l'amor mio,
E non pietà del mio dolor desio.

English.png English translation

That cruel and kind woman
cries for my weeping and suffers for my woe,
but does not burn ardently.
You, with no kind love,
can even shun your emotions,
but I long for love for my loving,
and not pity for my pain.