Pensai fra queste ripe (Giovanni Andrea Dragoni)

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  • (Posted 2016-03-14)  CPDL #38887:          (Finale 2014)
Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2016-03-14).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 247 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transposed down one note from G-mixolydian.

General Information

Title: Pensai fra queste ripe
Composer: Giovanni Andrea Dragoni
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1583 in De floridi virtuosi d'Italia libro primo (ed. Angelo Barbato), Edition 1, no. 18
    2nd published: 1600 in De floridi virtuosi d'Italia (Pierre Phalèse), no. 3
    3rd published: 1609 in Hortus musicalis (ed. Michael Herrer) – sacred contrafact, Book 2, no. 7
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Original text and translations

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Pensai fra queste ripe e valli ombrose
Quando in monte aspri e quando in piagge amene
Dar fine a tante pene
Et ammorzar le mie fiáme amorose
Ma non mi giova cercar piagge e monti
Non varieta di loco ne d'etade
Per rihaver la persa libertade
E far che gl'occhi miei non sian piu fonti
Ponga fin dunque morte,
A la si trista e miserabil sorte.