Ah! dolente partita (Claudio Monteverdi)

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Editor: Claudio Macchi (added 2000-07-19).   Score information: 140 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Ah! dolente partita
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: Italian
Instruments: none, a cappella
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Original text and translations

Original text: Italian.png Italian text Ah, dolente partita!
ah, fin de la mia vita!
da te parto e non moro?
E pur i provo
la pena de la morte
e sento nel partire
un vivace morire,
che da vita al dolore
per far che moia immortalmente il core

Translation(s):

English.png English translation
Ah, painful leaving!
Ah, end of my life!
From thee I leave and I don't die?
But I feel
The pain of death
And I feel on leaving
A lively dying,
Which gives life to pain
To let my heart immortally die.