Sia vile agli altri, e da quel solo amata (Jacquet de Berchem)
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- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-11). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 91 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.
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Title: Sia vile agli altri, e da quel solo amata
Composer: Jacquet de Berchem
Lyricists: Ludovico Ariosto and William Stewart Rose (translator)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1561
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Sia vile agli altri, e da quel solo amata
a cui di sé fece sì larga copia.
Ah, Fortuna crudel, Fortuna ingrata!
trionfan gli altri, e ne moro io d’inopia.
Dunque esser può che non mi sia più grata?
dunque io posso lasciar mia vita propia?
Ah, più tosto oggi manchino i dì miei,
ch’io viva più, s’amar non debbo lei!
English translation
And be she cheap with all except the wight
On whom she did so large a boon bestow.
Ah! false and cruel Fortune! foul despite!
While others triumph, I am drown'd in woe.
And can it be that I such treasure slight?
And can I then my very life forego?
No! let me die; 'twere happiness above
A longer life, if I must cease to love.
- by William Rose (1775-1843)