Sources used for collation: AnGa-1594; AnGa-1603; Ma-Ga-1614
Other sources: Ka-1601; Ph-1609; Ph-heirs-1632
Lines | Sources – Voices | Variants |
---|---|---|
7 | vit'al | |
8 | immortalment'il |
Ah, dolente partita
Battista Guarini, Il pastor fido, III, 3, 498–505
Madrigal: aaBcddeE
Ah, dolente partita! | Ah, sorrowful parting! | |
Ah, fin de la mia vita! | Ah, end of my life! | |
Da te parto e non moro? Pur i’ provo | I leave you, and how I do not dye? Yet I undergo | |
La pena de la morte | the suffering of death | |
5 | E sento nel partire | and I feel in leaving |
Un vivace morire, | an animated death | |
Che dà vita al dolore | that gives life to pain | |
Per far che moia immortalmente il core. | so that the heart will die immortally. |
English translations of madrigal texts based with permission on those by Kathryn Bosi, The complete five voice madrigals: for mixed voices / IV, The sixth and seventh books. New York: Gaudia Music and Arts, 1996.
Battista Guarini, Il pastor fido, tragicommedia pastorale, Venice: G.B. Ciotti, 1602, 163.
The 1602 edition of Il pastor fido has “E pur i’ provo” at line 3. ON the problem of variants and adaptations in Marenzio’s settings from Il pastor fido, see Cecchi, “List of Secular and Devotional Compositions by Luca Marenzio,” 490, n. XLVI, and the literature quoted there.