Venga quel bel Narciso (Emanuel Adriaenssen)

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  • (Posted 2020-06-14)  CPDL #59260:     
Editor: Christoph Dalitz (submitted 2020-06-14).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 40 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Venga quel bel Narciso
Composer: Emanuel Adriaenssen
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: SecularVillanella

Language: Italian
Instruments: Lute

First published: 1584 in Pratum musicum (ed. Emanuel Adriaenssen) – with lute accompaniment, Edition 1, no. 46
    2nd published: 1600 in Pratum musicum (ed. Emanuel Adriaenssen) – with lute accompaniment, Edition 3, no. 16
Description: From "Pratum musicum" (1584) fol. 53v: a villanella with an optional lute accompaniment. Adriaenssen does not give the composer of the piece and it is thus unclear whether it is by himself or someone else.

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

1. Venga quel bel narciso che nel fonte
S’inamoro e mirav’ una volta
E fugga poi si puo con l’alma sciolta.

2. Venga quel Greco che distrusse Troia
E mira s’occhi sol una volta
E fugga poi si puo con l’alma sciolta.

3. E ven ga an cor Orfea con sua Lira
E sentavi parlar sol una volta
E fugga poi si puo con l’alma sciolta.

4. E non sol quelli ma an cor venga Giove
E mira s’indarate trezze tue
E fugga sciolto al ciel si potra poi.