Udite, lagrimosi spirti (Salamone Rossi)

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• (Posted 2021-05-13)  CPDL #64404:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2021-05-13).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 289 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Udite, lagrimosi spirti
Composer: Salamone Rossi
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: Chittarrone

First published: 1600 in Il primo libro de madrigali (Salamone Rossi), no. 17
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Original text and translations

Italian text Mirtillo Udite, lagrimosi spirti d'Averno, Udite nova sorte di pena e di tormento. Mirate crudo affetto In sembiante pietoso. La mia donna crudel più de l'Inferno, Perch' una sola morte Non può far sazia la sua ingorda voglia E la mia vita è quasi una perpetua morte, Mi comanda, ch'i viva, perche la vita mia Di mille morti il dì ricetto sia. Guarini, Il pastor fido, Atto 3, Scena 6

English translation Mirtillo 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! Translation: William Clapperton