S'io non miro non moro (Carlo Gesualdo)

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• CPDL #19660:  [ Sibelius 5]

Editor: Daniel Harmer (submitted 2009-06-22).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Gesualdo Madrigal Book 5, No. 2. 1613 Edition. Sibelius file is zipped.

• CPDL #03778:    Finale 2001 

Editor: Fabrice Parmentier (submitted 2002-07-05).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 116 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: S'io non miro non moro
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

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• Facsimile: Partitvra delli sei libri de’ Madrigali a cinqve voci — Madrigals Books I – VI (Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1613) – large download, 70 MB, 492pp

Original text and translations

Italian text S'io non miro, non moro, Non mirando, non vivo; Pur morto io son Né son di vita privo. O miracol d'amore, Ahi, strana sorte, Che'l viver non fia vita, E'l morir morte.

English translation If I look not, I die not; when I do not look, I am not alive; yet dead I am, though my life has not been taken from me. Oh miracle of love; alas, strange fate, that living should not result in life, nor dying in death. Translation by Mick Swithinbank