Una pur chiederò (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2023-05-25)  CPDL #73899:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-05-25).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 102 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2017-10-18)  CPDL #46849:         

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2017-10-18).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 424 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Una pur chiederò
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Luigi Tansillo

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1595 in Il sesto libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 19
Description: Capitolo, Decima et ultima parte; All parts can be found at Il sesto libro de madrigali a sei voci (Luca Marenzio)

Original text and translations

Italian text Una pur chiederò che mi si debbe, ed ella è tal che benché d'odio accesi l'un nemico talor da l'altro l'ebbe. Occhi s'io moro e sia che vel palesi, perché voi vivi abbiate lode, ed io già spento, qual ch'onor; siate cortesi d'una lagrima vostra al cener mio.

English translation I will ask for one favor that is owed to me, and it is such that though it spark hatred in one, sometimes my enemy, the other may have it. Oh eyes, if I die and it be becomes clear, because you, the living, may receive praise, and I, already spent, some honor; if you be courteous shed but a single tear of your tears upon my ashes. Translation by Allen Garvin