Così, cor mio, vogliate (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2024-12-20)  CPDL #83143:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2018-07-19)  CPDL #50558:         

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2018-07-19).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 247 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Così, cor mio, vogliate
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Madrigali a 4-6 voci novamente composti, no. 2
Description:  In this ottava, the Scottish knight Zerbino lies dying from wounds he received from the Saracen Mandricardo, and speaks his final words to his beloved Issabella.

Original text and translations

Italian text Così, cor mio, vogliate (le diceva),  Doppo ch'io sarò morto, amarmi ancora,  Come solo il lasciarvi è che m’aggreva  Qui senza guida, e non già perch'io mora:  Che se in sicura parte m'accadeva  Finir de la mia vita l'ultima hora,  Lieto e contento e fortunato a pieno  Morto sarei, poi ch'io vi moro in seno.  Ariosto, Orlando Furioso XXIV, 78

English translation  "So be thou pleased, my heart," (Zerbino cried,)  "To love me yet, when I am dead and gone,  As to abandon thee without a guide,  And not to die, distresses me alone.  For did it me in place secure betide  To end my days, this earthly journey done,  I cheerful, and content, and fully blest  Would die, since I should die upon thy breast.  Translation William Stewart Rose