O com'è gran martire (Carlo Gesualdo)

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CPDL #33908:   

Editor: Christos Christodoulou (submitted 2014-12-28).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #30848: 

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (submitted 2013-12-27).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 55 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: SAATB realization

• CPDL #30829: 

Editor: Christopher Boveroux (submitted 2013-12-23).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 514 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: SATTB realization

General Information

Title: O com’è gran martire
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1594

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Original text and translations

Italian text

O come è gran martire
a celar suo desire.
Quando con pura fede
s’ama chi non se’l crede.
 

English translation

O what great martyr
to conceal desire.
When with pure faith
you love those who do not believe.