Un tempo sospirava (Giovanni Ferretti)

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• (Posted 2020-09-22)  CPDL #60650:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2020-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 294 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2015-01-14)  CPDL #34315:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-14).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 70 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Parts and source available on IMSLP.

General Information

Title: Un tempo sospirava
Composer: Giovanni Ferretti
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAAAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1573 in Il primo libro delle canzoni alla napolitana a sei voci (Giovanni Ferretti) (Scotto press, Venice), no. 18
    2nd published: 1585 in Symphonia angelica, Edition 1, no. 57
    3rd published: 1589 in Gemmae musicalis Liber Secundus, no. 33
    4th published: 1592 in Pratum musicum (ed. Emanuel Adriaenssen) – arr. for two voices and lute, Edition 2, no. 31
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Italian text

Un tempo sospirava,
piangev' e lacrimava;
Sol per volere bene
a chi mi dava pene.
E mo cantando vò,
Non ardo come prima, no no no.