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Il dolce sonno
Staff Notation • Secular, Madrigals
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Il dolce sonno by Andreas Pevernage — Lyrics
Il dolce sonno mi promise pace,
ma l’amaro veggiar mi torna in guerra:
il dolce sonno è ben stato fallace,
ma l’amaro veggiar, ohimè! non erra.
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About Il dolce sonno
Andreas Pevernage composed this madrigal for SSATB voices. Written in Italian, the text explores the contrasting states of sleep and wakefulness. The opening lines suggest that sweet sleep promised peace, but waking brings only bitterness and war. The singer laments that if truth is painful and falsehood pleasing, they wish never to experience truth again. If sleep brings joy and waking brings woe, the desire is to sleep forever without awakening. Pevernage crafts a rich harmonic language to express these melancholic sentiments, fitting for secular Renaissance part-music.
