Cantai un tempo (Claudio Monteverdi)
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- Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-06-30). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 132 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-06-30). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 123 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2011-02-26). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 78 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Cantai un tempo
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Pietro Bembo , Rima XLV (first two stanzas) in Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime, ed. by Carlo Disionotti, UTET, Torino (1966), reproduced in Letteratura italiana Einaudi, p. 28. An online version of Bembo's rhymes can be found at http://www.letteraturaitaliana.net/pdf/Volume_4/t80.pdf
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1590 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Claudio Monteverdi), no. 21
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Original text and translations
Italian text Cantai un tempo, e se fu dolce il canto |
English translation Once I sang, and though my song was sweet,
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French translation Je chantais jadis, et bien que doux fuisse mon chant,
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