Dialogo fra Giesù e l'Anima (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2018-08-28)  CPDL #51044:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2018-08-28).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 38 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original pitch and note values.

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Title: Dialogo fra Giesù e l'Anima
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: SSA or AAT
Genre: Sacred, Sacred song, Lauda

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1591 in Il quarto libro delle laudi a 3 e 4 voci (ed. Francisco Soto de Langa), no. 19
Description: Lauda: dialogue between Jesus and 'the soul'

Original text and translations

Italian text Giesù ove ne vai, che mostri tanti guai aver nel core? Ove me guid’amore. Tu segui empio tiranno, ch’ogn’hor con dolce inganno a morte mena. Mio desio non frena. Come Giesù non puoi frenar gl’affetti tuoi? Libero sei. Credi pur ch’io potrei. Ma un dolce amor si caro mischia amor nel mio amar ch’è cagion ch’io muoro, e morir desio.

English translation by Mick Swithinbank Dialogue between Jesus and the soul Soul: Jesus, where are you going, looking so sorrowful? Jesus: Where love directs me. Soul: You are in thrall to a cruel tyrant who is trying to lure you to your death. Jesus: My will cannot be altered. Soul: How can that be? Surely you are free to do as you please? Jesus: You may imagine that I am... ...but my affection is such that love imbues the bitterness that will cause me to die, and death is my desire.