Tu dormi? Ah, crudo core (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• (Posted 2014-09-03)  CPDL #32852:       

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-09-03).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 124 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Basso Continuo:   Score information: A4, 1 page, 37 kB   

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• (Posted 2004-08-17)  CPDL #07763:   

Editor: Jorge Luis Gaete Calderon (submitted 2004-08-17).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 216 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Contrafactum "O Jesu lindere meinen Schmerzen"

• (Posted 2025-05-23)  CPDL #85041:   

Editor: Richard Mix (submitted 2025-05-23).   Score information: Unknown   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Sacred German text, from Ambrosio Profio's Corollarium Geistlicher Collectaneorum 1649

General Information

Title: Tu Dormi!
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Anonymous

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1619 in Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali (Claudio Monteverdi), no. 21
    2nd published: 1649 in Corollarium Geistlicher Collectaneorum (ed. Ambrosius Profe) - German contrafact, no. 10
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Italian text Tu dormi? Ahi, crudo core, tu puoi dormir, perch'in te dorme amore. Io piango, e le mie voci lagrimose a te, che sorda sei, portano invano, ahimé, l'aure pietose. Ah, ben i pianti miei pon far pietosi i venti: ma te fan più crudele i miei lamenti.

English translation Sleep you? Ah, cruel heart, indeed you sleep, now that in you sleeps Love. I cry and my sor rowful words, ah, to you, my uncaring beauty, carry, in vain, my ardent desires. Ah, my pleas could move the wind; but my lament only makes you crueler.

O Jesu

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