Chi vol haver felice e lieto il core (Claudio Monteverdi)

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(Posted 2018-02-15) CPDL #48822:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-02-15). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 75 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #20713, with minor corrections to the underlay.

(Posted 2014-02-02) CPDL #31166: Individual parts: (vocal score only), (Basso Continuo)

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-02-02). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 131 kB Copyright: CPDL

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(Posted 2009-12-29) CPDL #20713: (Finale 2010)

Editor: Andrew Owen (submitted 2009-12-29). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 82 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This edition is directly taken from the score parts of the first edition, available at the IMSLP, published in 1638. Slurs added.

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(Posted 2004-08-04) CPDL #07715:

Editor: Björn Sothmann (submitted 2004-08-04). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL

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A4, 4 pages, 75 kB; CPDL #48822; editor: James Gibb
A4, 4 pages, 131 kB; CPDL #31166; editor: Peter Rottländer
A4, 4 pages, 131 kB; CPDL #31166; editor: Peter Rottländer
A4, 4 pages, 131 kB; CPDL #31166; editor: Peter Rottländer
Letter, 6 pages, 82 kB; CPDL #20713; editor: Andrew Owen
A4, 7 pages, 40 kB; CPDL #7715; editor: Björn Sothmann

General Information

Title: Chi vol haver felice e lieto il core, SV 162
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1638 in Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Claudio Monteverdi), no. 17
Description: This madrigal was the seventeenth of the madrigals published in Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals.

External websites:

IMSLP Entry for the Eighth Book of Madrigals

Original text and translations

Italian text

Chi vol haver felice e lieto il core,
non segua il crudo Amore,
quel lusinghier ch'ancide
quando più scherza e ride;
ma tema di beltà, di leggiadria
l'aura fallace e ria.
Al pregar non risponda, alla promessa
non creda; e se s'appressa,
fugga pur, che baleno è quel ch'alletta,
né mai baleno Amor, se non saetta.

English translation

Whoever wants to have a happy and joyful heart,
shouldn't follow cruel love,
that sycophant that kills
when it is most joking and laughing;
but he should fear the fallacious and pleasing
aura of beauty and loveliness.
To its supplications he shouldn't respond, in its promises
he shouldn't believe; and if it appears,
he should flee, since that spark is what allures,
since Love's spark never comes without a thunderbolt.