Se tu mi lassi (Claudio Monteverdi)

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Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2011-02-26).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 42 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MUP file is zipped.

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Title: Se tu mi lasci
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso , Libro IV. Rime amorose composte ad istanza d'altri in Le Rime di Torquato Tasso, ed. by Bruno Basile, Letteratura italiana Einaudi, Salerno/Roma (1994), p. 462. An online version of Tasso's rhymes can be found at http://www.letteraturaitaliana.net/pdf/Volume_5/t128.pdf.

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Venezia, 1590

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 15

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Original text and translations

Italian text Se tu mi lasci, perfida, tuo danno: non ti pensar che sia misera senza te la vita mia. Misero ben sarei se miseria i' stimassi e non ventura perder chi non mi cura e ricovrar quel che di me perdei. Misera tu, che per novello amore perdi quel fido core ch’era piú tuo che tu di te non sei; ma il tuo già non perd’io, perché non fu mai mio.

English translation If you leave me, devious one, the harm befalls you: do not think that my life will be miserable without you. I would be miserable indeed if I thought it misery and not good fortune to lose who cares not for me and recoup what I had lost of myself. You truly are miserable, who for a new lover lose that faithful heart that was yours more than you are of yourself. As for your heart, I can not lose it, for it was never mine.

French translation Si tu me délaisses, perfide, dommage à toi: ne pense pas que ma vie sera misérable sans toi. Je serais misérable si je croyais un mal, et non fortune, de perdre celle qui ne veut rien de moi et recouvrer ce que j'ai perdu de moi. C'est toi qui es misérable, car pour un nouvel amant tu perds le cœur fidèle qui était plus à toi que tu ne l'es à toi-même. Mais ton cœur je ne le perds pas, car il n'a jamais été à moi.