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Dolcissimi legami di parole amorose, che mi legò da scherz'e non mi scioglie. Così egli dunque scherz'e così coglie? Così l'alme legate sono ne le catene insidiose? Almen chi sì m'allaccia mi leg'ancor fra quelle dolci braccia.
Authorship
- by Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Dolcissimi legami", published 1590 [ vocal quintet], from Libro II de madrigali, no. 3, madrigal [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Liens très doux", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Süße Bande", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-02
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Süße Bande aus Liebesworten in die er mich scherzend verstrickte und nicht mehr losließ. Scherzt er so und überrumpelt er auf diese Weise? Werden so die Seelen tückisch in Ketten gefangen? Würde doch wenigstens der, der mich so fesselt, erneut mich in die lieben Arme schließen.
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2019 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595)
This text was added to the website: 2019-03-19
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