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Se tu m’ami, se sospiri (Alessandro Parisotti)
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- Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-28). Score information: Letter, 4 pages Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Lyrics in Italian and English - English translation by Dr. Theodore Baker. Edition in F Minor.
General Information
Title: Se tu m'ami, se sospiri
Composer: Alessandro Parisotti
Lyricist: Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687-1765)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: Italian
Instruments: Piano
Published: Anthology of Italian song of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (In two volumes) - Editor: Alessandro Parisotti (1853-1913) - Publisher: G. Schirmer - Copyright: 1894.
Description: This Baroque Italian aria is perhaps best known as it appears in Schirmer's Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias, most of which had appeared previously in the Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The pieces in that collection were sometimes set with less than historically accurate accompaniments. In this case, even the song is a modern fabrication, apparently written by Parisotti and passed off as a song by Pergolesi.
External websites:
- Parisotti's Anthology is available here
- Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
- English translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
- German translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
- Portuguese translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
- Spanish translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
Original text and translations
Italian text
- Se tu m’ami, se sospiri
- Sol per me, gentil pastor,
- Ho dolor de’ tuoi martiri,
- Ho diletto del tuo amor,
- Ma se pensi che soletto
- Io ti debba riamar,
- Pastorello, sei soggetto
- Facilmente a t’ingannar.
- Bella rosa porporina
- Oggi Silvia sceglierà,
- Con la scusa della spina
- Doman poi la sprezzerà.
- Ma degli uomini il consiglio
- Io per me non seguirò.
- Non perché mi piace il giglio
- Gli altri fiori sprezzerò.
