O Donna troppo cruda (Tomaso Pecci)

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  • (Posted 2024-01-28)  CPDL #78930:       
Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2024-01-28).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 349 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: O Donna troppo cruda
Composer: Tomaso Pecci
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1602 in Il primo libro de madrigali a 5, no. 7
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

O Donna troppo cruda, e troppo bella,
Da voi vien la mia sorte,
Voi sete la mia vita, e la mia morte.
Ma se la morte sete,
Perche la vita ne' begli occhi havete?
E se sete la vita,
Che non mi date aita?

Giovanni Battista Guarini, Rime (1599), madrigale 41, p.46