Tiranno Amor (Giovanni Battista Conforti)

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• (Posted 2023-01-30)  CPDL #72452:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-01-30).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: Tiranno Amor
Composer: Giovanni Battista Conforti
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Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SSAAT or SSAAB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1567 in Madrigali a cinque voci libro primo (Venice: Merulo), no. 11
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Original text and translations

Italian text Tiranno Amor che sotto falsa speme di gioia e di diletto, di pianti e di sospir ne ingombr'il petto: volgi i tuoi strali altrove che degli inganni tuoi vidi in altrui tai prove; che ingannar non mi poi ed ho sì forte adamantino scudo che non stimo fanciullo cieco e nudo.

English translation Tyrannical love, who under false hope of joy and delight, fills ones breast [instead] with tears and sighs: point your arrows elsewhere, for of your deceits I have seen in others similar trials. You cannot deceive me, for I have such a strong adamantine shield that I do not heed some blind and naked youth. Translation by Allen Garvin