Quante volte diss'io (Adrian Willaert)

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• (Posted 2023-09-01)  CPDL #75159:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-09-01).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 96 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: Quante volte diss'io
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1542 in Madrigali a quatro voce libro primo (Girolamo Scotto), no. 35
    2nd published: 1549 in Il vero terzo libro di madrigali de diversi autori a note negre (Venice: Gardano), no. 11
    3rd published: 1569 in Corona libro primo (Venice: Zorzi), no. 3
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Original text and translations

Italian text Quante volte diss'io allor pien di spavento: Costei per fermo nacque in paradiso. Così carco d'oblio il divin portamento e'l volto e le parole e'l dolce riso m'aveano, così diviso dall'imagine vera, ch'io dicea sospirando: Qui come venn'io, e quando? credendo esser in ciel, non là dov'era. Da indi in qua mi piace questa erba sì ch'altrove non ho pace.

English translation Then, full of apprehension, how often I said: 'For certain she was born in Paradise.' Her divine bearing and her face, her speech, her sweet smile captured me, and so separated me, from true thought that I would say, sighing: 'How did I come here, and when?' believing I was in heaven, not there where I was. Since then this grass has so pleased me, nowhere else do I find peace. Translation by Anthony S. Kline