La piaga ch'ho nel core (Orazio Vecchi)

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• (Posted 2025-04-06)  CPDL #84423:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-04-06).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Source files may be found on my github (linked from my CPDL profile).

General Information

Title: La piaga ch'ho nel core
Composer: Orazio Vecchi
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Il primo libro de canzonette a 6 voci (Venice: Angelo Gardano, no. 19
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Original text and translations

Italian text La piaga ch'ho nel core piaga non è che v'abbi' fatt'Amore ma quando il mio bel sole a me s'offerse per riceverl'il cor tutto s'aperse.

English translation The wound I have in my heart is not a wound that Love made: but when my fair sun offered herself to me my heart opened wholly to receive her. Translation by Allen Garvin

Note: there's insufficient information to discover the gender due to the clipped finals of fatt' and riceverl' and the generic term "il mio sole". I chose the object to be feminine because it is often, though not always, the woman that offers herself up. But it could go either way.