Ecco piegando (Claudio Monteverdi)

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Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2013-02-20).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 129 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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Te, Jesu Christe (contrafactum)

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Edition notes: includes original text together with Coppini's sacred Latin contrafactum. File recovered using the WayBackMachine of http://archive.org

General Information

Title: Ecco, piegando le genocchie
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricists: Giovanni Battista Guarini (Italian text) and Aquilino Coppini (Latin contrafactum)

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genres: Secular & SacredMadrigal

Languages: Italian, Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Book 5, (1605), Latin in MVSICA DI CLAVDIOMONTEVERDE...fatta spirituale da Aquilino Coppini (1607)

Description: This is from a madrigal cycle in Book 5, (1605) and sets part of Silvio's speech from Il pastor fido IV, ix, 1275-85

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text


Ecco piegando le genocchie a terra
Riverente t’adoro.
E ti chieggio perdon ma non già vita.
Ecco li strali e l’arco
Ma non ferir già tu gli occhi o le mani
Colpevoli ministri d’innocente voler;
Ferisci il petto, ferisci questo mostro
di pietade e d’amor aspro nemico,
ferisci questo cor che ti fu crudo.
Eccoti il petto ignudo!
 

English.png English translation

by anon. translator 1809
I proudly scorn'd thee, see, upon, the earth
With bended knee I do thee reverence.
Pardon I Crave from thee, but not my life ;
Behold my guilty arrows and my bow !
Wound not my hands or eyes; the guilty ministers
Of an unguilty will, but strike my breast ;
Slay here this monstrous enemy o£ pity.
This bitter foe to love, strike thro' this heart
To thee so cruel : See my naked breast !
 

Latin contrafactum by Aquilino Coppini

Latin.png Latin text

Te, Jesu Christe, liberator meus,
reverenter adoro.
Vulneratus es, mihi ut des vitam
Clavi tibi foderunt pedes,
manus amabiles, feriere te
cuspide saeva teterrimi ministri,
impie ausi sunt, ferire pectus.
Sic mira pietate redimisti me, Christe,
Tua morte. Tu vero vulnera
cor meum durum telo amoris tui.
 

English.png English translation

Translation by Mick Swithinbank Jesus Christ, my redeemer,
I worship you with reverence.
You were wounded to give me life,
The nails pierced your feet
And your dear hands; the most loathsome minions
Had the audacity to strike you with a cruel spear,
To wound your breast.
Thus in your wondrous mercy you redeemed me, Christ,
By your death. Pierce my hard heart
With the true spear of your love.