Con le sue belle braccia (Giovanni Piccioni)

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• (Posted 2025-05-08)  CPDL #84830:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-05-08).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 89 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Source files may be found on my github (linked from my CPDL profile).

• (Posted 2021-03-12)  CPDL #63439:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2021-03-12).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 363 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Con le sue belle braccia
Composer: Giovanni Piccioni
Lyricist:

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1596 in Il quarto libro de madrigali à cinque voci (Giovanni Piccioni), no. 10
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Italian text Con le sue belle braccia, la mia donna pietosa un dì m'avvinse, e così dolce strinse che d'immenso desire io mi sentia morire. Ella che ben s'accorse dell'alma ch'era ai labbra per uscire, immantinente corse con la sua bocca e in sulla mia la porse, e fuggendo involò gli spirti miei, ond'in me morto ora mi vivo in lei.

English translation With her lovely arms, my gentle lady embraced me one day, and held me so sweetly that from immense desire I felt myself dying. She, noticing well that my soul was escaping through my lips, quickly rushed with her mouth and placed it upon mine, and, fleeing, stole away my spirit, so that dead in myself, I now live in her. Translation by Allen Garvin