Giunto a la tomba (Luca Marenzio)

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• CPDL #29639:        (Finale 2004)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2013-07-16).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 113 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Giunto à la tomba - prima parte
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: From Tasso's La Gerusalemme Liberata

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Original text and translations

Italian text Giunto a la tomba ov' al suo spirto vivo Dolorosa prigion il ciel prescrisse, Di color, di calor, di moto privo Già freddo marmo al marmo il volto affisse. Al fin sgorgando un lagrimoso rivo, In un languido oimè proruppe, e disse: O sasso amato tanto, amaro tanto, Che dentr' hai le mie fiamme e fuori il pianto.

English translation Having reached the tomb, where heaven prescribed the sorrowfi,rl prison of her ardent spirit, his face deprived of color, warmth and movement, already of cold marble, he gazed on its marble. At last, giving forth a stream of tears, he uttered afaint "alas" and said; "O stone most beloved, most bitter, that holds within my flames and without my weeping;