L'Innamorato ("A lieta vita") (Giovanni Gastoldi)

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• (Posted 2025-01-13)  CPDL #83402:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-01-13).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Top vocal part texted with all the verses.

• (Posted 2004-02-16)  CPDL #06699:      (Sibelius 2)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2004-02-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 340 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: one verse to a page

• (Posted 2003-08-12)  CPDL #05421:        (Sibelius 2)

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2003-08-12).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 64 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Verse one only.

General Information

Title: L'Innamorato
Work: Balletti a cinque voci
Composer: Giovanni Gastoldi

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SAATB or SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1591 in Balletti a cinque voci
    2nd published: ca. 1598
Description: Also in A General History of Music (Charles Burney). Another version of Gastoldi's madrigal with German translation by Cornelius is at An hellen Tagen (Giovanni Gastoldi). Also see In dir ist Freude (Giovanni Gastoldi), a sacred chorale based on this madrigal.

Original text and translations

Italian text A lieta vita Amor ci invita. Fa la la la la la la la. Chi gioir brama se di cor ama donerà il core a un tal Signore. Fa la la ... Or lieta omai scacciando i guai. Fa la la ... Quanto ci resta viviamo in festa e diam l'onore a un tal Signore. Fa la la ... Chi a lui non crede privo è di fede. Fa la la ... Onde aver mertà contra se aperta l'ira e'l furore d'un tal Signore. Fa la la ... Né fuggir giova ch'egli ognun trova. Fa la la ... Veloci ha l'ali e foco e strali; dunque s'adore un tal Signore. Fa la la ...

English translation To the happy life Love invites us. Fa la la la la la la la. He who yearns for joy, if from the heart he loves will give his heart to such a Lord. Fa la la ... Now at last happy, chasing away your troubles. Fa la la ... How long we have left, let us live in celebration, and give honor to such a Lord. Fa la la ... He who believes in him not is lacking in faith. Fa la la ... Thus to deserve against himself the wrath and fury of such a Lord. Fa la la ... It is pointless to flee, for he finds everyone. Fa la la ... He has swift wings and fire and arrow, therefore worship such a Lord. Fa la la ... Translation by Allen Garvin