Il dì s'appressa (Cipriano de Rore)

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(Posted 2020-01-01) CPDL #56482: (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2020-01-01). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 98 kB Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes:

(Posted 2014-09-25) CPDL #33026:

• Alto in violin clef:

• Alto in transposed violin clef:

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2014-09-25). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 79 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key (chiavi naturali) and note-values.

General Information

Title: Il dì s'appressa
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1548 in Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Edition 1, no. 11

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Original text and translations

Italian text

Il dí s'appressa, et non pòte esser lunge,
sí corre il tempo et vola,
Vergine unica et sola,
e 'l cor or coscïentia
or morte punge.
Raccomandami al tuo figliuol, verace
homo et verace Dio,
ch'accolga 'l mïo spirto ultimo in pace.
Canzoniere 366 (last 7 lines)

English translation

The day is coming, surely coming soon,
such is time’s incessant flight,
Virgin peerless and unequalled,
and my heart is oppressed, now by pangs of conscience,
now by thoughts of death.
Commend me to your Son,
true man and very God:
may He receive me in peace when I draw my last breath.

Translation by Mick Swithinbank