Non è lasso martire (Cipriano de Rore)

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• (Posted 2025-02-27)  CPDL #84002:       

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2025-02-27).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1566 print. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values. Alto in transposed violin clef. Italian spelling modernised.

• (Posted 2019-06-15)  CPDL #54555:     

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2019-06-15).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 85 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2015-05-12)  CPDL #35379:          (Finale 2014)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-05-12).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 350 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Non è lasso martire
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Lyricist: Fortunio Spira^{create page}

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1564 in Premier livre des chansons a 4 et 5 parties, no. 23
    2nd published: 1566 in Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Edition 1, no. 10
    3rd published: 1568 in Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Edition 2, no. 10
    4th published: 1930 in Das Chorwerk, no. 5.08
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Original text and translations

Italian text Non è lasso martire Il convenir per voi, donna, morire; Se la cagion della mia morte è tale, Che fa lieve ogni male. Ma quel, che mi tormenta, È che del mio morir siete contenta, E ch’al primo veder d’altro amatore Cangiaste il vostro core. Non è dunque martire Il convenir per voi, donna, morire?

English translation Translation by Allen Garvin It is not, alas, a great suffering To be granted death for your sake, lady; If the meaning of my death is such That it alleviates every ill. But that, which tortures me, Is that by my death you are content, And that with the first sight of another lover You exchanged your heart. Is it not then suffering To be granted death for your sake, lady?