Ninfe a danzar venite (Alfonso Preti)

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• (Posted 2025-02-23)  CPDL #83961: 

• Original high clefs:       Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 86 kB   

• Transposed down a 4th:     Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 82 kB   

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-02-23).   Copyright: CC BY NC

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

• (Posted 2018-02-02)  CPDL #48653:         

Editor: Wim Looyestijn (submitted 2018-02-02).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This madrigal is part 5 from "Il Trionfo di Dori", a series of 29 madrigals by various composers and poets, all ending with the exclamation "Viva la bella Dori". English translation adopted from Tactus. Dutch translation by editor.

General Information

Title: Ninfe a danzar venite
Composer: Alfonso Preti
Lyricist: Dom Vitaliano Giscaferio^{create page}

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1592 in Il Trionfo di Dori, no. 5
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Original text and translations

Italian text Ninfe e danzar venite, E voi driadi e napee, Perché con l’altre dee, Possiate insiemi unite, Dar all ninfa mia lodi infinite, Cantand’a gara in sempiterni honori, Viva la bella Dori.

English translation Nymphs, come dance, and you dryads and wood nymphs, so that with other goddesses you can all together give my nymph infinite praises by each vying to sing to her everlasting glory: “Long live fair Dori!”.

Dutch translation Nimfen, komt en danst, jullie ook, dryaden en bosfeeën, zodat jullie, samen met de andere godinnen, mijn nimf eindeloos prijzen, wedijverend haar eeuwige lof zingend: "Lang leve de schone Dori!"