Di pensier in pensier (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2025-07-20)  CPDL #85999:         

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2025-07-20).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 113 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1579 print using 2/2 measures. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values.

• (Posted 2018-09-20)  CPDL #51337:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2018-09-20).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 489 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Di pensier in pensier
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1579 in Corona di madrigali a sei voci libro primo, no. 11
    2nd published: 1583 in Musica divina di 19 autori illustri, no. 53
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Original text and translations

Italian text Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte mi guida Amor, ch'ogni segnato calle provo contrario a la tranquilla vita. Se 'n solitaria piaggia, rivo, o fonte, se 'n fra duo poggi siede ombrosa valle, ivi s'acqueta l'alma sbigottita; e come Amor m'invita, Hor ride, hor piange, hor teme, hor s'assicura; e 'l volto che lei segue ov'ella il mena si turba e rasserena, et in un esser piciol tempo dura; onde a la vista huom di tal vita esperto diria: Questo arde, e di suo stato è incerto.  Petrarca, Canzoniere 129, Stanza 1

English translation Love leads me on, from thought to thought, from mountain to mountain, since every path blazed proves opposed to the tranquil life. If there is a stream or a fountain on a solitary slope, if a shadowed valley lies between two hills, the distressed soul calms itself there: and, as Love invites it to, now smiles, or weeps, or fears, or feels secure: and my face that follows the soul where she leads is turbid and then clear, and remains only a short time in one mode: so that a man expert in such a life would say at the sight of me: ‘He is on fire, and uncertain of his state.’  Translation A.S.Kline