Deh se lo sdegno altiero (Jacques Arcadelt)

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  • (Posted 2018-11-22)  CPDL #52298:     
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2018-11-22).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 92 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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  • (Posted 2018-08-20)  CPDL #50923:         
Editor: Walker Boyle (submitted 2018-08-20).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 120 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information

Title: Deh se lo sdegno altiero
Composer: Jacques Arcadelt
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1539 in Il primo libro de' madrigali a 4 voci, no. 1.29
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Deh se lo sdegno altiero
Che v'infiammo di cosi cruda voglia
Da voi tutto si toglia
Ascoltate per Dio quel che sia'l vero.
In me giamai non fu ne sia pensiero
D'offender la beltade
Ch'in voi Milla ha ordinat'il cielo
Per adornarne questa nostr'etade
E s'altro fu che ne al caldo neal gelo
Veggia la fin di nessun mio desio
E contrari mi sien gl'huomini e Dio.
 

English.png English text

Oh, if the haughty disdain
That ignited in you such a cruel desire
Could be entirely taken from you,
Listen, for God's sake, to what is true.
In me, there has never been and never will be a thought
Of offending the beauty
That in you, a thousand times, heaven has ordained
To adorn our present age.
And if there was anything else, neither in warmth nor in cold,
May it see the end of my every desire,
And may men and God be against me.
 

Original text and translations