Zanni et Magnifico (Johannes Eccard)

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Editor: Ulrich Alpers (submitted 2003-11-01).   Score information: A4, 7 pages   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Zanni et Magnifico
Composer: Johannes Eccard

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Languages: Venetian, Lombard
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Comic dialogs between Zanni and his master Magnifico are very common in the Italian commedia of the 16th century. Zanni and his wife Franceschina speak in a Lombard dialect (usually Bergamasque), while the master speaks in Venetian.

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Original text and translations

Venetian.png Venetian and Lombard.png Lombard text

Zanni (Z): - O messir, o patru

Magnifico (M): - Che distu? Che fastu?

Z.: O non pos plu cantar perchè crep della fam

Franceschina: E la bella Franceschina ninina bufina
la fili Bustachina
Che la voria mari nini la fili bustachi

M.: A bestion fio d’un laro
Non t’as tu ben sfrondrao, poltron?

Z.: Ma con que sa non g’avi mai pan quant’a voref?
Andev’a fa inpica

M.: Poltron, che tutt’el dì sei stat’ a tola
Tir’ in mal hora, trist’anegao

Tedesco: Mi star bon compagnon
Mi trinckere col flascon
Mi piasere moscatele
Mi fai garaus.

M.: O desgratiao, scampalo della galia.

Z.: Che vi piase, signor?
Che bramef, ser menchiu?
Cu cu cu cu

M.:O laro te ne disgratio
Mo sù imbriago

Z.: Vene dispregio
Horsu via page
E voi ol me salari:

M.: Non dubitar gioton ch’as tu da havere.
Tira via alla mal hora.

Z.: Quaranta tre sesi di bon argent.
U, do, ter, quater
Ande a bordel
Am recomandi, messir, o patru.

M.: O Zanni, me ti racomando.