by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)
Che se tu se' 'l cor mio
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: FRE
Che se tu se' 'l cor mio, come se' pur mal grado del cielo e della terra, qualor piagni e sospiri, quelle lagrime tue sono il mio sangue, que' sospiri il mio spirto e quelle pene e quel dolor, che senti, son miei, non tuoi, tormenti.
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Text Authorship:
- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 4, lines 548-555 [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 Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Madrigale", 1950 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Vier Canzonen, no. 3, Bärenreiter [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Che se tu se' 'l cor mio", from Libro IV de madrigali, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Car tu es mon cœur", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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