Veggo, dolce mio bene (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2019-06-01)  CPDL #54430:       

Editor: Marcos Mato (submitted 2019-06-01).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 48 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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• (Posted 2013-01-17)  CPDL #27848:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2012-12-22).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 381 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: Veggo, dolce mio bene
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1585 in Madrigali a quattro voci, libro primo, no. 3
    2nd published: 1590 in The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (Thomas Watson) – English contrafact, no. 3
    3rd published: 1594 in Florilegium (ed. Adrian Denss) – arr. for three voices and lute, no. 62
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Italian text

Veggo, dolce mio bene,
Nel volger de' vostr'occhi un vivo lume
Che per che mi consume
Di soverchia dolcezza; e chieggio aita
Quasi al fin de mia vita
Ché non mi sia il morire
Si tosto fin del mio dolce languire.