Ma di che debbo lamentarmi (Giaches de Wert)

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Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-14).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 70 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.

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Title: Ma di che debbo lamentarmi
Composer: Giaches de Wert
Lyricists: Ludovico Ariosto and William Stewart Rose (translator), from Orlando furioso, canto XXXII ottava 21

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1561 in Il primo libro de madrigali à 4 (Scotto press, Venice)

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Original text and translations

Italian text Ma di che debbo lamentarmi, ahi lassa fuor che del mio desire irrazionale? ch'alto mi leva, e si ne l'aria passa, ch'arriva in parte ove s'abbrucia l'ale; poi non potendo sostener, mi lassa dal ciel cader: ne qui finisce il male; che le rimette, e di nuovo arde: ond'io non ho mai fine al precipizio mio.

English translation But, woe is me, alas! and, what can I Save my irrational desire lament? Which makes me soar a pitch so passing high, I reach a region, where my plumes are brent; Then, unsustained, fall headlong from the sky; Nor ends my woe; on other flight intent, Again I imp my wings, again I soar; To flame and fall, tormented evermore. by William Stewart Rose (1775-1843)