I' vo piangendo (Gioseffo Zarlino)

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• (Posted 2020-04-19)  CPDL #58062:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2020-04-19).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 145 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2011-01-16)  CPDL #23012:     

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2011-01-16).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 544 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Das Chorwerk, 77. Notation here is a tone lower. Translation and musica ficta by John Hetland and The Renaissance Street Singers.

General Information

Title: I'vo piangendo
Composer: Gioseffo Zarlino
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1562 in I dolci et harmoniosi concenti, libro primo (Venice: Scotto press)

Description: Petrarca, Canzoniere CCCLXV (365)

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Original text and translations

Italian text I' vo piangend' i miei passati tempi, i quai pos' in amar cosa mortale senza levarm' a volo, havend' io l'ale, per dar forse di me non bass' essempi. Tu che ved' i miei mal' indegn' et empi, re del ciel invisibil' immortale, soccorr' all' alma desviat' e frale e'l suo diffetto di tua grati' adempi. Si che s'io viss' in guerra et in tempesta mora'n pace et in porto, e se la stanza fu vana almen sia la partita honesta, a quel poco di viver che m'avanza et al morir degn' esser tua man presta, tu sai ben, ch'in altrui non ho speranza. Canzoniere 365

English translation I go lamenting my past times, which I spent in loving something mortal without rising to flight, though I have wings, to make of myself perhaps not a base example. You who see my evils, unworthy and impious, king of heaven, invisible, immortal, give aid to the soul, wandering and frail, and its defect, by your grace, correct. So that if I lived in war and in storm, I may die in peace and in port, and if the sojourn was vain, at least the departure may be honorable. For that short time of living left to me, and to be worthy of dying, lend your hand; you know well that I have no other hope.