Credete voi ch'i' viva (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2023-04-29)  CPDL #73627:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-04-29).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 67 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2017-05-23)  CPDL #44664:          (Finale 2014)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2017-05-23).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 216 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2009-01-14)  CPDL #18770:     

Editors: Phillip Grow and R. Satterthwaite (submitted 2009-01-14).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 27 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Credete voi ch'i' viva
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612)

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSAAB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1599 in Il nono libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 12
Description: The high tessitura of the four upper parts, and the Guarini text suggest that this madrigal was written for the Concerto delle Donne; hence SSAAB-voicing.

Original text and translations

Italian text Credete voi ch'i' viva Pascendo il cor famelico e penoso Del pensiero amoroso? Ahi, ch'i' ne moro. Perché vita e ristoro Ben ho pensando, anima cara, in voi. Ma quando penso poi ch'i' ne son privo, Moro del cibo onde mi pasco e vivo.

English translation Do you believe that I live Nourishing my hungry and painful heart With loving thoughts? Alas, I die of it. Because life and relief I get if I think of you, my dear soul. But then, when I think that I'm without it, I die from the food of which I feed and live.