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Deh, porgi manò
Staff Notation • Secular, Madrigals
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2 editions of this piece
Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
SATTTB · Ilse Baltzer
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Deh, porgi manò by Mateo Flecha el Joven — Lyrics
Deh, porgi manò a l’affannat’ ingegno
Amor et a lo stile e stanco e frale
Per dir di quella che è fatt’ immortale
Et cittadina del celeste regno
Dammi, signor, che’l mio dir giung’al segno
De le sue lode ove per sè non sale;
Se vertù, se beltà non hebb’eguale
Il mondo, che d’haver lei non fu degno.
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About Deh, porgi manò
Mateo Flecha el Joven’s Deh, porgi manò is a Secular Italian madrigal for a large SATTTB choir. The text is a poignant lament, a plea to Amor for help in expressing the virtues of a woman whose beauty and worth have made her a citizen of heaven. The composer responds with music that mirrors the text's emotional depth. The madrigal explores themes of unattainable perfection and the inadequacy of mortal expression to capture divine qualities, concluding with a shared sorrow between the poet and the reader. This rich, polyphonic setting for double choir offers a profound musical interpretation of the Renaissance ideals of poetic and artistic expression.
