S'andasse Amor a caccia (Claudio Monteverdi)

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Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-04-24).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 161 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: S'andasse Amor a caccia
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Venezia, 1590

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 11

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Original text and translations

Italian text S’andasse Amor a caccia, Grechino a lass’avria per suo diletto e de le dame seguiria la traccia, ché vago e pargoletto è questo come quello e leggiadrett’e bello. Vezzosetto Grechino, se pur vuol tuo destino ch’egli sia cacciatore, prendi costei mentr’ella fugge Amore.

English translation Were Love to go hunting, he'd bring Grechino along for fun, and would follow the ladies' tracks, for the latter is as fair and playful as the former is graceful and handsome. Charming Grechino, if your fate wishes that Love be a hunter, catch that lady as she flees Love.

French translation Si Amour allait à la chasse, il aménérait Grechino pour s'amuser et suivrait les traces des dames, car l'un est aussi attrayant et ludique que l'autre est charmant et beau. Gracieux Grechino, si ton destin dicte qu'Amour soit chasseur, attrappe-la, cette femme qui fuit Amour.

Notes

Grechino was "cagnoletto della duchessa Margherita d'Este Gonzaga", i.e. the court dog. See Le Rime di Torquato Tasso, ed. by Bruno Basile, Letteratura italiana Einaudi, Salerno/Roma (1994). An online version of Tasso's rhymes can be found at http://www.letteraturaitaliana.net/pdf/Volume_5/t128.pdf.