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While it seems difficult to find a congruent meaning for the images used especially in the first part, some explanations by Ovid and other sources of Greek mythology may be helpful for the understanding:<br> | |||
Phaeton, the son of Helios (the Sun) by Climene, required from his father that he may drive his horses, as a token that he was accepted as such; as his father foresaw (and hence objected to the idea), he was not not able to control them (for even Jupiter wasn’t), and the race, interchanging between freezing and burning the earth, had to be stopped by a thunderbolt thrown by Jupiter, which killed Phaeton. His sisters, the Heliades, bewailed him on the banks of Eridanos, and were turned into poplar trees. His relative and lover, the Ligurian king Cycnus/Kyknos (Latin/Greek for “swan”), who also mourned his death, was turned into a swan. | |||
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- Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2021-04-03). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 372 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth (chiavette)
General Information
Title: Bianchi Cigni et canori
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: AATTBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1583 in Il Lauro verde, Edition 1, no. 1
2nd published: 1591 in Il Lauro verde, Edition 2, no. 1
3rd published: 1593 in Il Lauro verde, Edition 3, no. 1
Description:
Original text and translations
While it seems difficult to find a congruent meaning for the images used especially in the first part, some explanations by Ovid and other sources of Greek mythology may be helpful for the understanding:
Phaeton, the son of Helios (the Sun) by Climene, required from his father that he may drive his horses, as a token that he was accepted as such; as his father foresaw (and hence objected to the idea), he was not not able to control them (for even Jupiter wasn’t), and the race, interchanging between freezing and burning the earth, had to be stopped by a thunderbolt thrown by Jupiter, which killed Phaeton. His sisters, the Heliades, bewailed him on the banks of Eridanos, and were turned into poplar trees. His relative and lover, the Ligurian king Cycnus/Kyknos (Latin/Greek for “swan”), who also mourned his death, was turned into a swan.
Italian text Bianchi Cigni, e canori; |
German translation Weiße und wohltönende Schwäne,
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English translation White and sweet-singing swans,
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