Se tu fuggi (Carlo Gesualdo)
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CPDL #19325: [ Sibelius 5]
- Editor: Daniel Harmer (submitted 2009-04-23). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 42 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Sibelius file is zipped.
General Information
Title: Se tu fuggi
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1613
Description: Book 5 Madrigals, No. 20
External website(s):
- Facsimile: Partitvra delli sei libri de’ Madrigali a cinqve voci — Madrigals Books I – VI (Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1613) – large download, 70 MB, 492pp
Original text and translations
Italian text
Se tu fuggi, io non resto
Ché'l cor ti segue e grida.
Ahi, cor crudele, ove impietà s'annida,
Dove ten vai? Deh, pria mi rendi il core,
E poi ten fuggi, e fugga teco amore.
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
If you flee I shall not stay behind,
Because my heart will follow you and cry out.
Alas, cruel heart, devoid of pity,
Where are you going? I beg you, return my heart,
And then flee – and let love be gone with you.