Soavissimo fiato (Giovanni Gastoldi)

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  • (Posted 2024-08-05)  CPDL #81493:       
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-08-05).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 91 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
Edition notes: transposed down a 4th.
  • (Posted 2024-08-05)  CPDL #81492:         
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-08-05).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 92 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
Edition notes: original high clefs.

General Information

Title: Soavissimo fiato
Composer: Giovanni Gastoldi
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1588 Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci,Venetia, Ricciardo Amadino, no. 3
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Soavissimo fiato
che fra vermiglie rose
di due labbra amorose,
spirando odor sì grato:
porti alla bocca mia mentre io respiro,
che giù scendendo al core,
fa per dolcezza ch'ei si sface e more.
Perché, lasso, te'n fuggi
qual veloce sospiro
e col fuggir tanto mio ben distruggi?
Deh, spir'eternamente,
che altro piacer questa anima non sente.

English.png English translation

Sweetest breath
that among the vermillion roses
of two passionate lips,
exhaling such a pleasing scent:
carry to my mouth as I inhale,
that, descending to my heart,
causes it to melt and die for the sweetness.
Why, alas, do you run away
like a swift sigh,
and with your fleeing destroy my wellbeing?
Ah, breathe eternally,
for this soul knows no other joy.

Translation by Allen Garvin