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Madonna non so dir [Verdelot]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 37v

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Source title Entonase la boz segu[n]da en el tercero traste. Segundo grado.
Title in contents   Cancion Madonna non so dir tante parole en el primero grado Verdelot
Text incipit Madonna non so dir


Music

Category intabulation

Genre madrigal

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 5

Length (compases) 120

Vihuela

Tuning E

Courses 6

Final V/5

Highest I/5

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty easy

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language IT

Vocal notation texted staff notation

Commentary

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).

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Song Text

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.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Verdelot, Philippe. Madrigals for Four & Five Voices, Ed Jessie-Ann Owens. Sixteenth-century Madrigal 28-29. New York: Garland, 1989.

Printed source(s)

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.

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