Ma di che debbo lamentarmi (Claudio Merulo)

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• (Posted 2023-01-29)  CPDL #72424:         

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-01-29).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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Title: Ma di che debbo lamentarmi
Composer: Claudio Merulo
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1580 in Il primo libro de madrigali à 3 voci (Venice: Angelo Gardano press) (no.5)
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Original text and translations

Italian text Ma di che debbo lamentarmi, ahi lassa, fuor che del mio desir irrazionale? ch'alto mi leva e sì ne l'aria passa, ch'arriva in parte ove s'abbrucia l'ale; poi non potendo sostener, mi lassa dal ciel cader: né qui finisce il male; che le rimette, e di novo arde: ond'io non ho mai fine al precipizio mio.

English translation But, woe is me, alas! and, what can I Save my irrational desire lament? Which makes me soar a pitch so passing high, I reach a region, where my plumes are brent; Then, unsustained, fall headlong from the sky; Nor ends my woe; on other flight intent, Again I imp my wings, again I soar; To flame and fall, tormented evermore. Translation by William Stewart Rose