S'andasse Amor a caccia (Claudio Monteverdi)
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- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-08). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 93 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
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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, |
English translation Were Love to go hunting, |
French translation Si Amour allait à la chasse, |
- 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.