Deh, perché voglio anco di me dolermi (Claudio Merulo)

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• (Posted 2023-06-08)  CPDL #74089:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-06-08).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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Title: Deh, perché voglio anco di me dolermi
Composer: Claudio Merulo
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1580 in Il primo libro de madrigali à 3 voci
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Original text and translations

Italian text Deh, perché voglio anco di me dolermi? Ch’error, se non d’amarti, unqua commessi? Che meraviglia, se fragili e infermi feminil sensi fur subito oppressi? Perché dovev’io usar ripari e schermi che la somma beltà non mi piacessi, gli alti sembianti e le saggie parole? Misero è ben chi veder schiva il sole!

English translation Yet, ah! why blame myself? Wherein have I Ever offended, save in loving thee? What wonder was it then that suddenly A woman's feeble sense opprest should be? Why fence and guard myself, lest bearing high, Wise words, and beauty rare should pleasure me? Most wretched is the mortal that would shun To look upon the visage of the sun. Translation by William Rose