Se taccio, il duol s'avanza (Carlo Gesualdo)

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• (Posted 2025-01-07)  CPDL #83308:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2025-01-07).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 237 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2014-12-28)  CPDL #33907:     

Editor: Christos Christodoulou (submitted 2014-12-28).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 45 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2013-12-27)  CPDL #30847: 

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (submitted 2013-12-27).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 63 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Finale, SATTB.

• (Posted 2013-12-23)  CPDL #30830:     

Editor: Christopher Boveroux (submitted 2013-12-23).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 893 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Musescore, SATTB realization.

General Information

Title: Se taccio, il duol s’avanza
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1594 in Madrigali a 5 voci, libro secondo, no. 9
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Original text and translations

Italian text Se taccio, il duol s’avanza, se parlo, accresce l’ira, donna bella e crudel che mi martira. Ma pur prendo speranza, che l’umiltà vi pieghi, chè nel silenzio ancor son voci e prieghi.

English translation If I am silent, the grief advances If I speak, I increase the anger of my beautiful and cruel lady who torments me. And yet I take hope that you will yield to my humility that in my silence even are my voice and prayers. Alternate version: If I am silent, the woe cometh, if I speak, the anger increases, a beautiful woman and cruel torments me. But while I take hope, that humility will bend, In silence even are voices and prayers.