Ma gli archi (Orlando di Lasso)

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  • CPDL #12066: Network.png PDF, MIDI and Capella 5 files available.
Editor: Ulrich Alpers (submitted 2006-07-20).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 49 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: individual vocal parts also available.
Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2005-09-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 148 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Copyright (c) SMC 2002

General Information

Title: Ma gli archi
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 7vv   Voicing: SATTTTB

Genre: SacredMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: #2 from Lagrime di San Pietro

External websites:

Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Ma gli archi che nel petto gli aventaro
Le saette piú acute, e piú mortali,
Fur gli occhi del signor quand'il miraro;
Gli occhi fur gli archi e i sguardi fur gli strali
Che del cor non contenti sen passaro
Fin dentro a l'alma, e vi fer piaghe tali
Che bisognò mentre che visse poi
Ungerle col licor de gli occhi suoi.

German.png German translation by Kammerchor Elberfeld

Die Bögen aber, die ihm die schärfsten und tödlichsten
Pfeile in die Brust schleuderten, waren die Augen des
Herrn, als sie ihn betrachteten. Die Augen waren die
Bögen und die Blicke waren die Pfeile, die, mit dem
Herzen nicht zufrieden, bis in die Seele drangen und
dort solche Wunden schlugen, daß er sie bis an sein
Lebensende mit dem Naß seiner Augen feuchten mußte.