O com'è gran martire (Carlo Gesualdo)
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CPDL #30829: [Musescore]
- Editor: Christopher Boveroux (submitted 2013-12-23). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 514 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: SATTB realization
General Information
Title: O com’è gran martire
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1594
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Original text and translations
Italian text
O come è gran martire
a celar suo desire.
Quando con pura fede
s’ama chi non se’l crede.
English translation
O what great martyr
to conceal desire.
When with pure faith
you love those who do not believe.