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Falsa credenza avete
Staff Notation • Secular, Madrigals
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Falsa credenza avete by Luca Marenzio — Lyrics
Falsa credenza avete,
donna, se voi credete
ch'io non sia vivo poi
che più non amo voi;
anzi morrò s'io v'amo
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About Falsa credenza avete
Luca Marenzio's Falsa credenza avete is a secular madrigal for SAATB voices, sung in Italian. The text expresses the singer's defiance of his beloved. He claims that if she believes he is no longer alive because he no longer loves her, she is mistaken. Indeed, he will die if he loves her, for he lives only as much as he does not love her. He continues that while bearing love for her has always been the cause of others' death, he who loves her dies and lives a hard fate, for a man who loves death is not truly alive.
