Arde il mio cor (Carlo Gesualdo)

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Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2004-06-28). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 62 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Arde il mio cor
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Il Quatro Libro di Madrigali - 1596

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Italian text

Arde il mio cor ed è sì dolce il foco
Che vive nell’ardore
Onde lieto si more.
O mia felice sorte,
O dolce, o strana morte!

English translation

My heart burns and the fire is so sweet
That it lives in the blaze,
And thus dies joyfully.
O my blissful fate!
O sweet, O strange death!