Vergine santa (Cipriano de Rore)
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CPDL #32377: LilyPond
- Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2014-07-01). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 92 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Original pitch (chiavi naturali) and note-values. Alto part is in tenor clef.
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Title: Vergine santa
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1548
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Vergine santa d'ogni gratia piena,
che per vera et altissima humiltate
salisti al ciel onde miei preghi ascolti,
tu partoristi il fonte di pietate,
et di giustitia il sol, che rasserena
il secol pien d'errori oscuri et folti;
tre dolci et cari nomi hai in te raccolti,
madre, figliuola et sposa:
Vergine glorïosa,
donna del Re che nostri lacci à sciolti
et fatto 'l mondo libero et felice,
ne le cui sante piaghe
prego ch'appaghe il cor, vera beatrice.
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
Holy virgin, full of mercy,
who out of the greatest true humility
ascended into heaven, whence you hear my prayers,
you bore one who is the source of all mercy
and is the sun of justice whose rays
brighten an age full of sin and strange errors;
you are precious in three ways:
as mother, son and bride.
Virgin enthroned in glory,
spouse of the King who loosed our bonds
and made the world both free and happy,
vy virtue of whose sacred wounds I address my prayers to you,
comfort my soul, true source of blessings.