Donna la bella (Marco Antonio de Pordenon)

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• (Posted 2014-01-02)  CPDL #30911:        (Finale 2008)

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2014-01-02).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Donna la bella
Composer: Marco Antonio de Pordenon
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1580 in Il primo libro de madrigali a quattro voci, no. 4
    2nd published: 1583 in Harmonia celeste (ed. Andreas Pevernage), Edition 1, no. 4
    3rd published: 1588 in Musica Transalpina (ed. Nicholas Yonge) – in English translation, Edition 1, no. 10
    4th published: 1589 in Harmonia celeste (ed. Andreas Pevernage), Edition 2, no. 4
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Original text and translations

Italian text

Donna, la bella mano
che per donar porgeste
rapi mentre voi deste,
cara ladra d'amor,
se nel donar togliete
ma certo voi donate
per poter poi rapir
quel che voi date,
tal hora mi rendete,
no'l fate ad altro fine
che per poterne far nove rapine.