Cantiam la bella Clori (Luca Marenzio)

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  • (Posted 2023-11-09)  CPDL #77161:        (LilyPond)
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-11-09).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 118 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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  • (Posted 2018-11-29)  CPDL #52451:         
Editor: Annie Pousse (submitted 2018-11-29).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 536 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Cantiam la bella Clori
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1594 in Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 17
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Cantiam la bella Clori!
Clori cantiam, che dai celesti cori
portò l'altero e non più visto esempio
di beltà, di valor degna di tempio,
e d'immortali onori.
Cantiam la bella Clori!
Cantiamo la leggiadra e vaga Ninfa,
nostro ben, nostra gloria e nostra duce,
in cui tanta dal Cielo e sì divina
grazia splend' e riluce
ch'infiamma i nostri cori.
Viva la bella Clori!

English.png English translation

Let us sing of beautiful Clori!
Of Clori let us sing, who from celestial choirs
was brought, a noble and ne'er seen before example
of beauty, of valor, worthy of a temple
and of immortal honors.
Let us sing of the lovely Clori!
Sing of the graceful and gracious Nymph,
in whom so much of Heaven and such divine
grace shines and radiates
that it inflames our hearts.
Long live beautiful Clori!

Translation by Allen Garvin