Morte! Che voi? (Maddalena Casulana)

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  • (Posted 2017-08-22)  CPDL #46031:        (Finale 2012)
Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2017-08-22).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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  • (Posted 2013-01-05)  CPDL #27972:        (MuP)
Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2013-01-05).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 27 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Morte! Che voi?
Composer: Maddalena Casulana
Lyricist: Serafino Aquilanocreate page

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAT
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1570 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a quattro voci, no. 6
Description: A dialogue between the lover and Death. Excerpted from a strambotto (8-line stanza) by Serafino Aquilano.

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

– Morte! – Che vuoi? – Te chiamo.
– Ecco, m’appresso.
– Prendim’e fa che manchi il mio dolore.
– Non puoi perch’in te non regna il core.
– Sì fa! Sì fa! – No fa! Fatte’l restituire
ché chi vita non ha non può morire.

English.png English translation

“Death!” “What do you want?” “Come here!”
“Look, I’m here.”
“Take me! make my pain go away!”
“You can’t, because you don’t have your heart.”
“Yes, I do!” “No, you don’t. Get it back.
Anybody that lives without one can’t die.”

Translation by Nicholas Jones