Nigra sum, sed formosa (Gioseffo Zarlino)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2020-11-30). Score information: A4, 13 pages, 530 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
- Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2015-06-25). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 1021 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Source: L'Arte Musicale in Italia, ed. Luigi Torchi, Vol. I, G. Ricoldi & Co., 1897. We have raised the notation a wholetone. Text underlay, translation, emendations (see last page) and musica ficta by John Hetland and The Renaissance Street Singers. 6/26/96
General Information
Title: Nigra sum, sed formosa
Composer: Gioseffo Zarlino
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Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1549
Description: Song of Songs 1:4-6
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Original text and translations
Latin text Nígra sum, sed formósa, |
English translation I am dark, but comely, |