Source title | Entonase la boz segu[n]da en el tercero traste. Segundo grado. |
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Title in contents | Cancion Madonna non so dir tante parole en el primero grado Verdelot |
Text incipit | Madonna non so dir |
Category intabulation
Genre madrigal
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 5
Length (compases) 120
Tuning E
Courses 6
Final V/5
Highest I/5
Lowest VI/3
Difficulty easy
Tempo medium
Language IT
Vocal notation texted staff notation
Intabulation of a five-voice madrigal by Philippe Verdelot, notated with the soprano in mensural notation and the lower voices in tablature, for a vihuela in E. The madrigal was first published in 1535 and again in 1538. The text is by Dragonetto Bonifacio (in MGG).
Madonna, non so dir tante parole,
O voi volet'o no, se voi volete
oprat'al gran bisogn'il vostro senno,
che voi saret'intesa per un ceno,
e se d'un che sempr'arde al fin vi duole,
un bel si, un bel no, gli rispondete,
sel ser un si, se sarà un no,
amici come prima, voi trovaret'un altr'amare,
et io, non potend'esser vostro, sarò mio.
Madonna, I don't know how to say so many words,
Whether you want to or not,
if you want to operate your wisdom to the great need,
that you'll be understood by a nod,
and if you're sorry for one who always burns at the end,
a fine yes, a fine no, answer him,
if it's a yes, if it's a no,
friends as before, you'll find another love,
and I, not being able to be yours, will be mine.
Verdelot, Philippe. Madrigals for Four & Five Voices, Ed Jessie-Ann Owens. Sixteenth-century Madrigal 28-29. New York: Garland, 1989.
Verdelot, Philippe. Le dotte et eccellente compositioni de i madrigali a cinque voci da diversi perfettissimí musici fatte. Venice: G. Scotto, 1540.
Verdelot, Philippe. Madrigali a cinque. Libro primo. 4 vol. O. Scotto, Venezia: 1535.