Ferir quel petto (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• (Posted 2013-03-08)  CPDL #28457:       

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2013-03-08).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 151 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Basso continuo:   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key

• (Posted 2013-03-08)  CPDL #28458:     

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2013-03-08).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 151 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Basso continuo:   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed a fourth down, according to chiavette notation.

With Latin contrafactum Pulchræ sunt

• (Posted 1998-12-28)  CPDL #00265: 

Editor: Jens Peter Jacobsen (submitted 1998-12-28).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 162 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: original madrigal, with Coppini's sacred text added. File recovered using the WayBackMachine of http://archive.org

General Information

Title: Ferir quel petto
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini (Il Pastor fido, IV ix 1286-1305)

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genres: Secular & Sacred, Madrigal

Languages: Latin, Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1605 in Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Claudio Monteverdi), no. 8
    2nd published: 1607 in Musica tolta da I Madrigali di Claudio Monteverde, e d'altri autori … e fatta spiritual (Aquilino Coppini), no. 4
Description: end of a sequence from Il Pastor fido

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ecco Silvio - 3.5 Ferir quel petto, Silvio?.

Latin contrafactum Pulchrae sunt

Latin text Pulchræ sunt genæ tuæ, amica mea, soror mea, sponsa; oculi tui sicut columbarum. O pulcherrima virgo, vulnerasti cor meum, sponsa mea, in uno crine tuo. Ubera tua sicut botri Cypri et ut hinnuli duo gemelli capræ qui pascunt flores. Quam pulchra es et speciosa, virgo! Coronabere. Veni de Libano, amica mea, veni. Veni de Libano, formosa mea. Tui dentes ut oves de lavacro et labia stillantia unguentum.

English translation Your cheeks are beautiful, my friend, sister, and wife; your eyes are like those of doves. O most beautiful virgin, you pierced my heart, my wife, with your locks. Your breasts are like Cyprus grapes and like twin goatlings that graze on flowers. How beautiful and handsome are you, virgin! You shall be crowned. Come from Lebanon, my friend, come. Come from Lebanon, my beauty. Your teeth are white like just-bathed sheep, your lips glistening with balm. Translation by Campelli