Vago augelletto che cantando vai (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• CPDL #29656: 

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2013-07-17).   Score information: A4, 17 pages, 218 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Instrumental parts: Score information: A4, 6 pages, 110 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #07198:    Capella 

Editor: Björn Sothmann (submitted 2004-06-13).   Score information: A4, 24 pages, 112 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Vago augelletto che cantando vai
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

Number of voices: 7vv   Voicing: SSATTTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: two violins, bassoon, basso continuo
Published: 8th Book of Madrigals

Description: Petrarch's poem is a Sonnet: Monteverdi takes the first line, repeats it before line five and after line 8; he does not set lines 9-14.

Original text and translations

Italian text Vago Augelletto che cantando vai Ovver piangendo il tuo tempo passato Vedendoti la notte e'l verno a lato E'l dì dopo le spalle e i mesi gai. Si come i tuoi gravosi affani sai Così sapessi, il mio simile stato, Veresti in grembo a questo sconsolato A partir seco i dolorosi guai. Canzoniere 353 (1st 8 lines) Czech translation Rozmilý ptáčku, který stále zpíváš, naříkej raději nad svým časem, který se krátí. Vždyť před nocí a mrazem marně se skrýváš. a měsíce jasu a slunce svitu se už nenavrátí. Kdybys jen věděl, jak příliš se podobá tvůj bědný osud neštěstí mému, zalétal bys ke mně, básníku věnčenému.

English translation Little wandering bird that goes singing your time gone by, with weeping notes, seeing the night and the winter near, and the day and all the joyful months behind, if, knowing your own heavy sorrows, you could know of my state like your own, you would fly to this disconsolate breast to share your grievous sadness with me. Translation by Anthony S. Kline ©