Lucia, celu (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2010-11-11)  CPDL #22599:        (Finale 2008)

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2010-11-11).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 123 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Lucia, celu
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1581 in Libro de villanelle, moresche et altre canzoni, no. 13
Description: This piece is a Moresche, a genre of low-brow song sung from the perspective of a Moorish servant/slave. The genre could be seen as a very early incarnation of 19th-century minstrelsy, filled with racial caricatures and stereotypes of the time. The text, a mix of Neopolitan and Moorish nonsense words and dialect, reflects this. "Moor," as used in the translation, is a derogatory term, along the lines of similar racial epithets used in the United States.

Original text and translations

Italian text Lucia, celu, hai, hai, hai, hai, hai biscania hai, tambililililili gua tambilililililili gua,gua ciri, ciri, cian, ciri, ciri, cian. Non canusci Giorgia tua, Christophona tua? Se tu fare cariss'a me, et io far caris'a te, gua, gua, gua, gua, gua! Se te voi scarpe de laura con chia velle sommolata, et dobletta quadra cirifa congonella de scuagliata Giorgia tua port'a te, Ciambelotta verde, bruna, carmosina leonata, et no pare de paternoglia cose canda come contessa cod'alzata com'a Madonna, apri porta! Giorgia tua, canta la magna! Hai! Lucia mia, non canusci Giorgia tua che te vole tanto di bene, che non pote niente bedere, U, U, gricache, gricache, za, za, za, baraza, tiri, tiri, gua, gua, tiri, tiri, gua, gua Scaba canaza, vati con dio, non cene leche, per santa malina, zu, zu, zu, zu bere, tiritiri gua, gua, hai, hai Lucia mia! Giorgia sporcata pisci'a lo lieto! Dici, sudata pampona, fete come tonina, burnoguala, scaba canaza! Ziche lizi, ziche lizi, diridindina, zocolo, che della burnoguala siamo, dindiri, dindiridina.

English translation GIORGIO: Lucia, heaven above! Ah, you rascally girl, Tambilililili, gua, ciri, ciri, cian, Don't you recognize your Giorgio, your little singer? If you caress me, I'll caress you, too, gua gua. If you want sweet little golden shoes, with pretty heels, a fine cotton blouse, a lovely flounced skirt, Giorgio will give you all this, a cushion with fur that's green, brown scarlet, ginger, and don't blush if I sing to you as if to a countess, to a highness, to a madonna. Open you door to me! Your Giorgio is singing the praises of your greatness! O, my Lucia, don't you recognize your Giorgio who loves you so much, who sees nobody else but you? O, o, gricache, za, za, baraza Tiri tiri, gua gua LUCIA: You scummy Moor, I shit in your face! GIORGIO: Alabachi laudi barichigno LUCIA: You poxy hound, may the devil take you, There's nothing for you to lick here. GIORGIO: Something to drink, tiri tiri, guu, gua, O my Lucia! LUCIA: O, that pig Giorgio pisses in bed! Don't tell me it's just sweat. You stink like rotting fish, Moor face, scabby hound. GIORGIO: Ziche lizi diridindina, we bumpkins from Moor land we've got faces like Moors, Dindiri, dindiridina