Le vag'herbette (Alessandro Striggio)

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(Posted 2021-06-22) CPDL #64860:

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2021-06-22). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 119 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Le vag'herbette
Composer: Alessandro Striggio
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Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1576 in Musica di 13 autori illustri, no. 16
2nd published: 1588 in Gemma musicalis liber primus (Friedrich Lindner), no. 25
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Original text and translations

Italian text

Le vag’herbett’e l’amorose fronde
Ch’ornan’il bello e dilettoso colle
Di tè, villan gentile,
Fann’ecco risonar,
Ecco risponde
Ogn’altra cosa e/è vile;
Ond’il basso tenor, l’alto concento
Di terra ferm’ il ciel, il Mare e’l vento.