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Aspro core, e selvaggio, e cruda voglia
Staff Notation • Secular, Madrigals
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Aspro core, e selvaggio, e cruda voglia by Giaches de Wert — Lyrics
Aspro core, e selvaggio, e cruda voglia
In dolce, humile, angelica figura,
Se l'impreso rigor gran tempo dura,
Havran di me poco honorata spoglia.
Che quando nasce, e muor fior, herba, e foglia;
Quando e il di chiaro, e quando e notte oscura;
Piango ad ogn'hor ben hodi mia ventura
Di Madonna, e d'Amore, onde mi doglia.
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About Aspro core, e selvaggio, e cruda voglia
Giaches de Wert was a prolific composer of madrigals during the late Renaissance. This setting of Petrarch's Sonnet 225, Aspro core, e selvaggio, e cruda voglia, is a powerful example of the genre. Scored for SATTB voices, the text expresses the poet's suffering under the harshness of his beloved's unyielding will, despite her angelic appearance. He laments his enduring pain, finding solace only in the hope that relentless devotion, like water on stone, might eventually soften her resolve. Wert's music vividly captures the emotional turmoil and the speaker's plea for eventual mercy.
