Signor, nell'altro canto io vi dicea (Jacquet de Berchem)

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  • (Posted 2024-12-18)  CPDL #83129:        (LilyPond)
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-12-18).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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Title: Signor, nell'altro canto io vi dicea
Composer: Jacquet de Berchem
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso, Canto 24, ottava 4.
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1561 in Primo secondo et terzo libro del capriccio (Venice: Antonio Gardano press), no. 32
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Signor, nell'altro canto io vi dicea
che'l forsennato e furioso Orlando
trattesi l'arme e sparse al campo avea,
squarciati i panni, via gittato il brando,
svelte le piante, e risonar facea
i cavi sassi e l'alte selve; quando
alcun' pastori al suon trasse in quel lato
lor stella, o qualche lor grave peccato.

English.png English translation

In the previous canto, I have told you
How the frenzied, insensate Orlando
Tore off his armour, and its pieces threw
About the woods, and shed his sword also,
Uprooting trees, while echoes rose anew
From forest heights, and stony caves below,
Till their past sins, or fateful planets, drove
Nearby shepherds to that noise in the grove.

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