Sola soletta (Girolamo Conversi)

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• (Posted 2019-11-18)  CPDL #55967:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2019-11-18).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2014-08-20)  CPDL #32742:        (Sibelius 5)

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2014-08-20).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 35 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Sola soletta
Composer: Girolamo Conversi

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1575 in Il primo libro delle canzoni a cinque voci
    2nd published: 1583 in Musica divina di 19 autori illustri, no. 31
Description: A 5 part canzone from the composer's "il primo libro delle canzoni a cinque voci", 1575. The work was subsequently arranged by Thomas Morley for an instrumental consort. There is also an English setting of the madrigal, When all alone my bony loue, in "The first set of Italian madrigals Englished", 1590, with lyrics by Thomas Watson.

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• The source on IMSLP.

Original text and translations

Italian text Sola soletta i me ne vò cantando. Et ho via il core più freddo che giaccio. Et vo d'amor spregiando d'ogni suo laccio.

English translation Alone and carefree I walk along, singing. My heart is colder than ice and I disdain all the snares of love. Translation by Mick Swithinbank (NB: In the original, it is clear from the gender of the adjectives that these words are spoken by a woman)