Ecco mormorar l'onde (Claudio Monteverdi)

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General Information

Title: Ecco mormorar l'onde
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso , Libro II. Rime per Laura Peperara. 1563-1567  in Le Rime di Torquato Tasso, ed. by Bruno Basile, Letteratura italiana Einaudi, Salerno/Roma (1994), p. 158. An online version of Tasso's rhymes can be found at http://www.letteraturaitaliana.net/pdf/Volume_5/t128.pdf.

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Venezia, 1590

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 14

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• Collegium Musicum Almae Matris Chamber Choir performing Ecco mormorar l'onde

Original text and translations

Italian text Ecco mormorar l'onde e tremolar le fronde a l'aura mattutina e gli arboscelli, e sovra i verdi rami i vaghi augelli cantar soavemente e rider l'oriente. Ecco già l'alba appare e si specchia nel mare e rasserena il cielo e [le campagne] imperla il dolce gelo, e gli alti monti indora. O bella e vaga Aurora, L'aura è tua messaggera,  [e tu de l'aura ch'ogni arso cor ristaura.

English translation Here are the waves murmuring and the foliage quivering at the morning breeze; and the shrubs, and on the tree branches the pretty birds sing softly; and the Orient smiles. Here dawn looms up and is reflected in the sea and brightens up the sky and beads the sweet ice and gilds the tall mountains. O beautiful and vague dawn, the gentle breeze is your herald  [and you [are the herald] of the breeze which refreshes every burnt heart.

French translation Voilà le murmure des ondes et le frisson des frondes à la brise du matin et les arbustes et sur branches vertes les beaux oiseaux chantent suavement et l'Orient rit[;] voici que l'aube apparaît et se reflète dans la mer et le ciel se rassérène et le doux gel couvre de perles la campagne et dore la sommité des montagnes. Ô belle et gracieuse Aurore, la brise est ta messagère  [et toi celle de la brise, qui restaure tout cœur brûlé.

Czech translation

Hle, jak šumí vlny příboje
a listovím třepotaje
ranní větřík keře rozechvěje.
V zeleném větvoví něžní ptáci
Přesladce zpívají
A úsvit se usmívá.
Hle, už se rozbřesk ukázal
a zhlíží se mořské hladině
a nebe rozzářil
a rozsypal perly v trávě
a vrcholky hor oblékl do zlata.
O jasná a spanilá jitřenko,
Vítr je tvůj posel a ty na něm letíš,
a ten každé planoucí srdce uzdraví.