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Cosi pensoso
Staff Notation • Secular, Canons, Madrigals
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Cosi pensoso by Francesco Landini — Lyrics
Così pensoso com’Amor mi guida
per la verde rivera passo passo,
senti’: «Leva quel sasso!»
«Ve’ ‘l granchio, ve’»,
«Ve’ ‘l pesce, piglia piglia»
«Quest’è gran maraviglia».
Cominciò Isabella con istrida:
«O me, o me!»,
«Che hai, che hai?»
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About Cosi pensoso
Francesco Landini’s Cosi pensoso paints a vivid scene of a riverside excursion where a group of friends, including Isabella and Lisa, are enjoying themselves. The text describes their playful interactions, with calls to notice the stones, crabs, and fish. Isabella cries out in pain, having been nipped by a crab while trying to catch a fish, but Lisa reassures her. Meanwhile, the narrator arrives at a gathering of lovers, welcomed with warm smiles. This secular Italian piece, for three tenors, is cast as a canon, evoking the lively, imitative textures characteristic of the genre and painterly descriptions found in the words.
