Ridon' hor per le piagge - Casulana, Maddalena

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⌛ Period → Renaissance

◈ Genre / Form Madrigals

♯ Key D minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – F5

¶ Language → Italian

Measures 39

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments SATB

Pages 2

CPDL # 82612

Editor Fernando Gómez Jácome

Posted 2024-11-05

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

D4 – F5

Alto

A3 – A4

Tenor

D3 – F4

Bass

G2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

Ridon' hor per le piaggie herbett'e fiori, esser non puo che quel angelic' alma, non sent' il suon del' amorose note, se nostra ria fortun' è di piu forza, lagrimand' e cantando i nostri versi, e col bue zopp' andrem cacciando l'aura. Note: in the original, longer poem, of which this is the sixth verse, it is clear that the poet will be trying to catch the breeze in a net, and presumably the fact of being accompanied by a lame ox, bizarre though the image may be, would make the enterprise all the more futile. It may refer back to a poem by the 12th century troubadour Arnaut Daniel which says that securing his beloved’s favour is an endeavour as challenging as gathering up the breeze, catching a swift hare with a slow ox or swimming against the current. The breeze (l’aura) is also a pun on the name Laura, the unattainable woman that the author of this poem, Petrarch, paid homage to in so much of his writing.

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