Udite, lagrimosi spirti (Giovanni Piccioni)

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• (Posted 2023-02-02)  CPDL #72492:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-02-02).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2021-02-22)  CPDL #63110:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2021-02-22).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 297 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Udite, lagrimosi spirti
Composer: Giovanni Piccioni
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1602 in Il pastor fido; Il sesto libro di madrigali a cinque voci (Giovanni Piccioni), no. 2
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Original text and translations

Italian text Udite, lagrimosi Spirti d'Averno, udite Nova sorte si pena e di tormento; Mirate crudo affetto In sembiante pietoso; La mia donna crudel, più del inferno, Perch' una sola morte Non può far satia la sua cruda voglia, E la mia vita è quasi Una perpetua morte; Mi comanda ch'io viva, Perche la vita mia Di mille morti il dì ricetto sia. Il pastor fido (A3;S6;1;Mirtillo)

English translation Ye tortur'd spirits, hear, That in Avernus' doleful regions dwell, Hear a new torment I endure; See under pity's mask conceal'd A horrid kind of love. She I adore Loads me with greater sufferings still than yours, Because a single death alone Is far too scant to glut her fell revenge. My life is only a perpetual death; She bids me live, more fierceness to display, And make me die a thousand times a day! Translated by William Clapperton