Sudden passions (Alessandro Orologio)

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• (Posted 2021-02-13)  CPDL #62878:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-02-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: At pitch. Source: Madrigals to five voices, selected out of the best approved Italian authors by Thomas Morley, pub. Thomas East, 1598.

General Information

Title: Sudden passions (in Morley's print "Soden passons")
Composer: Alessandro Orologio
Lyricist:

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 5
    2nd published: 1598 in Madrigals to five voices (ed. Thomas Morley) – English translation, no. 12
Description: A translation of Orologio's madrigal 'Ma se pietà del grave incendio mio'.

Original text and translations

English text

Sudden passion with strange and rare tormenting
increaseth grief, and more it breeds my sorrow
the cause increased doth blear mine eyes with weeping
and daunt my thoughts from even until the morrow,
in this unrestful pain long must I languish,
till death draw near to rid my heart from anguish.