Ahimè dov'è'l bel viso (Jacques Arcadelt)

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• (Posted 2010-06-02)  CPDL #21719:  Sibelius 7

Editor: Walker Boyle (submitted 2010-06-02).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Significantly updated on April 2014. Transcribed from an 1539 edition of "Il primo libro de' madrigali a 4 voci. Renewed 2010, September the 25.

• CPDL #09309:  NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 30 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Ahimè dov'è'l bel viso
Composer: Jacques Arcadelt

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Il primo libro de' madrigali a 4 voci, 1539

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Italian text Ahimè, dov' è'l bel viso, in cui solea tener suo nido Amore, e dove ripost' era ogni mia speme? dov' è'l bel viso, il bel viso che ornava il mondo di splendore, il mio caro thesoro, il sommo bene? chi me'l ritiene, e chi me'l cela o fortuna, o morte ingorda cieca spietata e sorda, chi m'ha tolto il mio cor, chi me l'asconde? dov' è'l ben mio, che più non mi risponde?

English translation Alas, where's the beautiful face, Where Love used to have his nest, And where all of my hopes were? Where's the beautiful face, the beautiful face That adorned the world with magnificence, My dear treasure, the greatest good? Alas, who's holding it from me, who's hiding it? Oh luck, oh greedy death Blind pitiless and deaf, Who took my heart from me, who's hiding it? Where's my darling, that's not answering to me?