Un dubbio verno (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2018-06-18)  CPDL #50181:         

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2018-06-18).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 298 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up one note from G-dorian.

General Information

Title: Un dubbio verno
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1585 in Madrigali novamente composti a 5 voci, no. 5
Description: Lassus based a setting of the Nunc dimittis on this madrigal.

Original text and translations

Italian text Un dubbio verno, un instabil sereno, È vostra fama e poca nebbia il rompe, E'l gran tempo a gran nomi è gran veneno. Passan vostri trionfi e vostre pompe, Passan le signorie passano i regni, Ogni cosa mortal, Tempo interrompe. (Petrarch: Trionfo del Tempo, 109-114)

English translation Your fame is as a doubtful spring, an unstable serene day, and a little cloud breaks it, and great time is great venom to great names. Your triumphs and your pomp pass, lordships pass, kingdoms pass, Time interrupts each mortal thing.