Neve e Rose ha nel volto (Andrea Gabrieli)

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  • (Posted 2019-11-09)  CPDL #55851:       
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2019-11-09).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 95 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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General Information

Title: Neve e Rose ha nel volto
Composer: Andrea Gabrieli
Lyricist: Girolamo Casoni

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1574 in Il primo libro de madrigali a 6 voci, Edition 1, no. 3
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Neve e Rose ha nel volto
La nova mia angioletta, ond'io discerno
Primavera in un punto aprir col verno;
Ma chi sia che le tocchi
Se fra la Neve e il foco e fra le Rose
Pungenti spine hai, lasso, Amor, nascose?
Arda dunque chi in van se li avvicina,
E punga il cor di velenosa spina.

English.png English translation

Translation by Allen Garvin
Snow and roses she has in her face,
my new little angel, whence I discern
spring which opens at the point with winter;
But who is it that could touch them
If among the snow is fire, and among the roses
you have hidden prickly thorns, Love?
He burns, then, who in vain approaches them
And pierces his heart with poisonous thorn.