Ch'il credera (Orlando di Lasso)

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• CPDL #29922: 

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2013-08-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Chil credera
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATT

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1555, in Lasso's first publication, Le quatoirsiesme livre a 4 parties.

Description: This is the second part of the six-part madrigal set that opens Orlando di Lasso's first publication. The full set:

1. Del freddo Rheno
2. Ch'il credera
3. Rotava et e pur ver
4. Si fe cristallo
5. Et io qual fui
6. Hor su la nuda terra

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Original text and translations

See the text and translation for full poem at: Del freddo Rheno a la sinistra riva (text).

Italian text Second stanza: Ch'il credera? Perche lo dica; il sole splendea nei crini, e l'una e l'altra riva mutò, senza mentir habito e stato, come i celesti pie toccaron l’herbe, e quasi al sol nascenti in chiara voce gli augelli cantar’ al suo lucente foco.

English translation Second stanza: Who’d believe me? Therefore I tell you: the sun was shining in her hair, and both banks changed, I tell you no lie, character and state, when her heavenly feet touched the grass, and as if it were sunrise itself, the birds sang to her radiant light.