Mentr' il canoro (Giovanni Bernardino Nanino)

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• (Posted 2022-06-08)  CPDL #69631:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2022-06-08).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 172 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2020-06-08)  CPDL #59138:         

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2020-06-08).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 108 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A semi-diplomatic edition. Score of voices, Harpsicord intavolation and the lute intavolation in Italian tablature and transcribed to French tablature.

General Information

Title: Mentr' il canoro
Composer: Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1595 in Lodi della Musica à 3 voci, no. 16
Description: A Canzonetta from the Simone Veronis print: Lodi della Musica à 3 voci ... Libro Primo, Roma 1596. The Print gives the parts of the voices, an intavolation for harpsichord and an intavolation for Lute in Italian tablature.

Original text and translations

Italian text

Mentr' il canoro Cigno
sente l'aura vital
già venir manco,
non plora o langue

como vinto o stanco
ma con soavi accenti
Echo move a pietade
e lauree i venti