Dolcemente dormiva (Claudio Monteverdi)

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CPDL #23207:   MUP 

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2011-02-26).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 56 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MUP file is zipped.

General Information

Title: Dolcemente dormiva
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1590

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no.14

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Original text and translations

Italian text Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori e intorno al suo bel volto givan scherzando i pargoletti amori. Mirava io, da me tolto con gran diletto, lei, quando dir mi sentei: « Stolto, che fai? Tempo perduto non s’acquista mai.» Allor io mi chinai così pian piano e, baciandole il viso, provai quanta dolcezza ha il paradiso.

English translation Cloris slept sweetly as around her pretty face love cherubs flew merrily. I, absent-minded and full of joy, watched her, when I heard myself say: "Fool, what gives? Missed chances never come again." Thus, I bent down, ever so slowly, and, when I kissed her face, I tasted Heaven's sweetness.