Title: O del mio dolce ardor (from Paride ed Elena)
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Text: Ranieri de’ Calzabigi (1714-1795)
Free at Art Song Central:
- PDF: O del mio dolce ardor
- Key: E Minor
- Range: B3 – F♯5
- Source: Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Elsewhere on the Internet:
- PDF available at the Werner Icking Memorial Archive
- Key: F Minor
- Range: C4 – G5
- Finale 2005 file also available to edit or transpose.
Mp3:
- Paride ed Elena: “O del mio dolce ardor” – Anne Sophie von Otter
- O del mio dolce ardor, Med-High (Fm) Accompaniment track
- O del mio dolce ardor, Low (Dm) Accompaniment track
- O del mio dolce ardor, High (Gm: original key) Accompaniment track
MIDI:
- MIDI available at the Werner Icking Memorial Archive
Text:
O del mio dolce ardor
Bramato oggetto,
L’aura che tu respiri,
Alfin respiro.O vunque il guardo io giro,
Le tue vaghe sembianze
Amore in me dipinge:
Il mio pensier si finge
Le più liete speranze;
E nel desio che così
M’empie il petto
Cerco te, chiamo te, spero e sospiro.
IPA Transcription:
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