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Four Love Madrigals
Translations © by Michael P Rosewall
Song Cycle by Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre (1901 - 1999)
View original-language texts alone: Cuatro madrigales amatorios
¿Con qué la lavaré la tez de la mi cara? ¿Con qué la lavaré, Que vivo mal penada? Lávanse las casadas con agua de limones: lávome yo, cuitada, con penas y dolores.
With what shall I bathe The [blush]1 of my cheek? With what shall I bathe That which life has treated so sorely? The matrons wash themselves With lemon water: I wash myself, wretched one, With sorrows and [pains]2.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Vasquez: "flower" or "bloom"
2 Vasquez: "anxieties"
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Line count: 8
Word count: 38
Vos me matásteis, niña en cabello, vos me habéis muerto. Riberas de un río ví moza vírgen, Niña en cabello, vos me matásteis, Niña en cabello, vos me habéis muerto.
You have slain me, Maid with hair unbound, You have killed me. On the banks of a river I espied a handsome lass [virgin], Maid with hair unbound, You have slain me, Maid with hair unbound, You have killed me.
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Word count: 40
¿De dónde venís, amore? Bien sé yo de dónde. ¿De dónde venís, amigo? Fuere yo testigo!
From where have you come, lover? Well do I know from where! From where have you come, my friend? Perhaps I will tell!
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De los álamos vengo, madre, de ver cómo los menea el aire. De los álamos de Sevilla, de ver a mi linda amiga,
From the poplars have I come, mother, From seeing them sway in the air, From the poplars of Seville, From seeing my lovely girlfriend.
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Line count: 4
Word count: 24