Cynthia, thy song (Giovanni Croce)

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• (Posted 2021-09-06)  CPDL #65682:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-09-06).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 157 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Cynthia, thy song
Composer: Giovanni Croce
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1597 in Musica Transalpina (ed. Nicholas Yonge), Edition 2, no. 4
    2nd published: 1851 Novello's Glee Hive no.14
Description: This work is a translation of Croce's madrigal "Cinthia il tuo dolce canto" from his second book of madrigals for five voices (1592).

Original text and translations

English text

Cynthia, thy song and chanting,
So strange a flame in gentle hearts awaketh,
That every cold desire wanton love maketh,
Sounds to thy praise and vaunting,
Of syrens most commended,
That with delightful tunes for praise contended;
For when thou sweetly soundest,
Thou neither kill'st nor woundest,
But dost revive a number
Of bodies buried in perpetual slumber.