Title: Non posso disperar
Music:
- Misattributed by Parisotti to S. de Luca (15??-16??)
- Actual composer was Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747)
Text: Authorship unknown
Free at Art Song Central:
- PDF: Non posso disperar
- Key: E Minor
- Range: D4 – F♯5
- Source: Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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MIDI:
Non posso disperar,
sei troppo cara al cor:
il solo sperare
d’aver a gioire
m’è un dolce languire,
m’è un caro dolor.
- Recmusic.org has the text.
- Also note this helpful discussion in the forums for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
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