Cantava la più vaga pastorella (Luca Marenzio)

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  • (Posted 2020-05-03)  CPDL #58434:     
Editor: Marcos Mato (submitted 2020-05-03).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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  • (Posted 2015-01-03)  CPDL #34090:       
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-03).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 88 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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General Information

Title: Cantava la più vaga pastorella
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist:

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1580 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 11
    2nd published: 1588 in Gemma musicalis liber primus (ed. Friedrich Lindner), no. 33
    3rd published: 1590 in The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (Thomas Watson) – English contrafact, no. 17
    4th published: 1605 in Nervi d'Orfeo (ed. Jacopo Graswinkel), no. 1
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Cantava la più vaga pastorella
Che mai premesse fiori
E scopriva nel viso almi colori
Una ninfa di lei molto più bella.
Deh, perché l'alma fatta ad ambe ancella
Non ebbe allor duo cori,
Mentr'era a l'un e a l'altra intento e fiso
Per lassarne uno al canto e l'altro al viso?