Dolcemente dormiva (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• CPDL #32114:     

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-05-28).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 120 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key

• CPDL #32115:     

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-05-28).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Fourth down according to chiavette

• CPDL #23207:      (MuP)

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2011-02-26).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 56 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Dolcemente dormiva
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso , Libro III. Rime amorose estravaganti  in Le Rime di Torquato Tasso, ed. by Bruno Basile, Letteratura italiana Einaudi, Salerno/Roma (1994), p. 400. 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: 1590 in Venezia.

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 16

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Original text and translations

Italian text Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori e 'ntorno al suo bel volto givan scherzando i pargoletti Amori. Mirav'io, da me tolto, con gran diletto lei, quando dir mi sentii: « Stolto, che fai? Tempo perduto non s’acquista mai.» Allor io mi chinai così pian piano, e baciandole il viso provai quanta dolcezza ha il paradiso.

English translation Clori slept sweetly as around her pretty face love cherubs flew merrily. I, absent-minded and full of joy, watched her, when I heard myself say: "Fool, what gives? Missed chances never come again." Thus, I bent down, ever so slowly, and, when I kissed her face, I tasted Heaven's sweetness.   Translation by Campelli

French translation Ma Clori dormait doucement et autour de son beau visage volaient et plaisantaient petits Amours. Perdu dans mes pensées je la regardais avec grand délice, quand je m'entendis dire: « Fou, que fais-tu? Le temps perdu ne se récupère jamais. » Alors je m'inclinais lentement et embrassant son visage je goûtais toute la douceur du paradis.   Translation by Campelli