Madonna io non lo so perché lo fai (Adrian Willaert)

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  • (Posted 2018-11-14)  CPDL #51896:     
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2018-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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  • (Posted 2015-10-28)  CPDL #37334:          (Finale 2014)
Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-10-28).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 290 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transposed up one note from G dorian.
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General Information

Title: Madonna io non lo so perché lo fai
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularVillanella

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1545 in Canzone villanesche alla napolitana, no. 3
    2nd published: 1576 in Cantiones suavissimae (Leonhard Schröter) – sacred contrafact, Tomus 1, no. 18
    3rd published: 1930 in Das Chorwerk, no. 8.10
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Madonna io non lo so perché lo fai,
Che me ti mostri in tutto scorrucciata,
 Perché sei così ingrata,
 se sai per te son cieco,
 dolor sta sempre meco.

O dio famme ne scir da tanti guai,
ca non gin camparaggio un’ altra fiata.

O mora o camp’ hormai non me ne curo,
sto mondo latr’ e fatto a chi ha ventura.

Latin.png Latin text

Quicquid agit Homo transit ut umbra
nec requies habetur ulla mundi
 obvius est ubivis
 dolor nesandi lapsus.

Hic dolor Utilis ad pietatem
a lubricis convertit at aeterna
 pectora cruciata
 fides quieta reddit.
Contrafact from Cantiones suavissimae (Leonhard Schröter)