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Sources used for collation: Vi-1587; Am-1587; AnGa-1593; Sc-heir-1603; AnGa-1605

Other sources: Ph-1594; Ka-1608; Ph-1610; 16103 (devotional contrafactum Sic dilecta o Christe)

Measures Sources – Voices Variants
1

AnGa-1593

Sc-heir-1603

AnGa-1605

all voices

mensuration sign C-cut instead of C

12 Vi-1587 – C

f4 originally g4, then corrected in all copies. In US-BEm there is no correction to f4, but the body of the note is erased.

24 AnGa-1605 – B

e2 instead of d2

AnGa-1593 – Sc-heir-1603 – AnGa-1605 – mensuration sign C-cut instead of C
Vi-1587 – f4 originally g4, then corrected in all copies. In US-BEm there is no correction to f4, but the body of the note is erased.
AnGa-1605 – e2 instead of d2
Text
Lines Sources – Voices Variants
4

Am-1587 – all voices

AnGa-1593 – all voices

Sc-heir-1603 – CATBS

AnGa-1605 – ATQS

coi bei
4

AnGa-1593 – all voices

Sc-heir-1603 – all voices

AnGa-1605 – all voices

vostr’occhi
7

AnGa-1593 – ABQS

Sc-heir-1603 – ABQS

AnGa-1605 – ABQS

mort’& io
coi bei (Am-1587 – all voices)
coi bei (AnGa-1593 – all voices)
coi bei (Sc-heir-1603 – CATBS)
coi bei (AnGa-1605 – ATQS)
vostr’occhi (AnGa-1593 – all voices)
vostr’occhi (Sc-heir-1603 – all voices)
vostr’occhi (AnGa-1605 – all voices)
mort’& io (AnGa-1593 – ABQS)
mort’& io (Sc-heir-1603 – ABQS)
mort’& io (AnGa-1605 – ABQS)

Edition and commentary

Se bramate ch’io mora

Madrigal: xAAbbCC

Se bramate ch’io mora If you desire my death
Gli è van, credete a me, vostro desire,believe me, your longing is in vain,
Ché chi vita non ha non può morire.for only one who is living can die.
Co’ bei vostri occhi, voiWith your fair eyes
5Datemi vita, e poigive me life, and then
Avrà ciascun di noi quel che desia: each of us will have their desires granted:
Voi la mia morte e io la vita mia.for you my death, and for me my life.

The translations are partially indebited to the ones by Barbara Reynolds in Luca Marenzio, The Complete Six Voice Madrigals. Vol IV: The Fourth Book of Madrigal for Six Voices, ed. John Steele and Suzanne Court (New York: Gaudia, 2002).