Questa ordì il laccio (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2023-04-22)  CPDL #73535:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-04-22).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: Questa ordì il laccio
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Strozzi
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Il quarto libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 12
    2nd published: 1590 in The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (Thomas Watson) – English contrafact, no. 27
    3rd published: 1594 in Madrigali a sei voci in un corpo ridotti, no. 71
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Original text and translations

Italian text Questa ordì il laccio, questa sì bella man fra fiori e l'erba il tese, e questa il cor mi prese, e fu sì presta a trarlo in mezzo a mille fiamme accese. Or che l'ho qui ristretta: vendetta, Amor, vendetta!

English translation This one wove the snare, this beautiful hand, amid flowers and the grass, stretched it, and this one snared my heart, and was so quick to draw it into the midst of a thousand burning flames. Now that I have caught her here: revenge, Love, revenge! {{translator|Allen Garvin