Dove, speranza mia, dove ora sei (Jacquet de Berchem)

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• (Posted 2020-08-01)  CPDL #59959:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2020-08-01).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 85 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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Title: Dove, speranza mia, dove ora sei
Composer: Jacquet de Berchem
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1561 in Primo secondo et terzo libro del capriccio (Venice: Antonio Gardano press), no. 22
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Original text and translations

Italian text Dove, speranza mia, dove ora sei? vai tu soletta forse ancor errando? o pur t’hanno trovata i lupi rei senza la guardia del tuo fido Orlando? e il fior ch’in ciel potea pormi fra i dei, il fior ch’intatto io mi venia serbando per non turbarti, ohimè! l’animo casto, ohimè! per forza avranno colto e guasto.

English translation My hope, where are thou, where? In doleful wise Dost thou, perchance, yet rove thy lonely round? Art thou, indeed, to ravening wolf a prize, Without thy faithful Roland's succour found? And is the flower, which, with the deities, Me, in mid heaven had placed, which, not to wound, So reverent was my love, thy feelings chaste, I kept untouched, alas! now plucked and waste? Translation by William Stewart Rose