Udite lagrimosi spirti (Giaches de Wert)

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• (Posted 2023-02-01)  CPDL #72490:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-02-01).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2017-06-30)  CPDL #45209:          (Finale 2014)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2017-06-30).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 312 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up one note from E-phrygian.

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Title: Udite lagrimosi spirti
Composer: Giaches de Wert
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1595 in L'undecimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 10
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Italian text

 Udite, lagrimosi
 Spirti d'Averno, udite
 Nova sorte di pena e di tormento;
 Mirate crudo affetto
 In sembiante pietoso:

 La mia donna, crudel piú del' inferno,
 Perch'una sola morte
 Non può far satia la sua ingorda voglia
 E la mia vita è quasi
 Una perpetua morte,
 Mi comanda ch'i' viva
 Perché la vita mia,
 Di mille morti il dí ricetto sia.