Occhi miei (Ruggiero Giovannelli)

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• (Posted 2024-10-08)  CPDL #82293:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-10-08).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 90 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2020-05-14)  CPDL #58562:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2020-05-14).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 327 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 1998-12-28)  CPDL #00155: 

Editor: Jens Peter Jacobsen (submitted 1998-12-28).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 175 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: originally madrigal, sacred text added. File recovered using the WayBackMachine of http://archive.org

General Information

Title: Dulce est / Occhi miei
Composer: Ruggiero Giovannelli
Lyricist: Aquilino Coppini

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genres: Secular & Sacred, Madrigal

Languages: Italian, Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1593 in Il secondo libro de Madrigali a cinque, no. 1
    2nd published: 1607 in Musica tolta da I Madrigali di Claudio Monteverde, e d'altri autori … e fatta spiritual (Aquilino Coppini), no. 16
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Original text and translations

Italian text Occhi miei che miraste il vostro sol seren a voi presente com'allor ambidoi non v'innalzaste al ciel d'Amor, all'alta sfera ardente? E tu anima mia come dal petto non usciste a mirar tanto diletto? Ohimè potrò ben dire che non si può per gran piacer morire.

English translation O my eyes, that looked upon the serene sun presented to you, why did both not lift themselves to Love's heaven, to the celestial sphere of love's flame? And you, my soul, why did you not emerge from my breast to gaze with such delight? Alas! I shall indeed not be able to say that one cannot die from great pleasure. Translation by Allen Garvin

Contrafactum:

Latin text

Dulce est & iucundum servire Domino devote corde,
dulce corde, atque erigere velocem mentem
ad sydera et coelites beatos.
Ergo, anima mea, tolle, moras propera facere bonum
Fac, sis dilecta De out iubiles in Gloria aeterna.