Pien d'un vago pensier (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2014-06-06)  CPDL #32190: 

• Original key (high chiavette):        

• Transposed down a fourth:      

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2014-06-06).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original note-values.

General Information

Title: Pien d'un vago pensier
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1555 in Primo libro di madrigali a 5 voci, no. 20
Description: 

Original text and translations

Italian text Pien d'un vago penser che me desvia da tutti gli altri, et fammi al mondo ir solo ad or ad ora a me stesso m'involo pur lei cercando che fuggir devria; et veggiola passar sí dolce et ria che l'alma trema per levarsi a volo, tal d'armati sospir' conduce stuolo questa bella d'Amor nemica, et mia. Canzoniere 169 (1st 8 lines)

English translation Full of a wandering thought that separates me from all other men, and makes me go lonely through the world, hour after hour I am tempted from myself searching for her, whom I should fly from: and I see her go by so sweet and deadly that my soul trembles to rise in flight, she leads such a troop of armed sighs with her, this beautiful enemy of Love, and of me. Translation by Anthony S. Kline ©