Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori (Benedetto Pallavicino)

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Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-10).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 96 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.

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Title: Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori
Composer: Benedetto Pallavicino
Lyricists: Ludovico Ariosto and William Stewart Rose (translator) in Orlando furioso, Canto VI ottava 21.

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAAAB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1581 in Il primo libro de madrigali a 5 voci (Gardano press, Venice)

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Original text and translations

Italian text Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori, di palme e d’amenissime mortelle, cedri et aranci ch’avean frutti e fiori contesti in varie forme e tutte belle, facean riparo ai fervidi calori de’ giorni estivi con lor spesse ombrelle; e tra quei rami con sicuri voli cantando se ne giano i rosignuoli.

English translation Small thickets, with the scented laurel gay, Cedar, and orange, full of fruit and flower, Myrtle and palm, with interwoven spray, Pleached in mixed modes, all lovely, form a bower; And, breaking with their shade the scorching ray, Make a cool shelter from the noontide hour. And nightingales among those branches wing Their flight, and safely amorous descants sing. by William Rose (1775-1843)