Ti voglio amar, se la terra tremasse
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Ti voglio amar, se la terra tremasse, ti voglio amar, se il ciel venisse a terra, ti voglio amar, se tu m'abbandonasse, se tu m'abbandondonassi, se gli occhi miei e' tuoi facesser guerra e gli occhi miei e' tuoi guerra faranno. Ti voglio amar, se contenti saranno.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Canti popolari Toscani, raccolti e annotati da Giuseppe Tigri, Firenze, 1856.
Note for line 3, word 6: the original text has "m'abbandonasse", which is not grammatically correct but is an "idiotismo fiorentino" (Florentine idiom)
Note for Viardot-García's setting: when line 7 is repeated, the altered words "contenta sarai" revert to the original "contenti saranno".
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Ti voglio amar!", op. 6 (Six Mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 6, published [1910] [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Ti voglio amar", VWV 1070 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2023-01-13
Line count: 7
Word count: 47