Pergolesi (attr.) - Se tu m’ami, se sospiri
Title: Se tu m’ami, se sospiri
Music:
- by Alessandro Parisotti (1853-1913)
- Parisotti attributed it to Giovanni Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Text: Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687-1765) (Link is to Italian Wikipedia entry)
Important note: This Baroque Italian aria is perhaps best known as it appears in Schirmer’s Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias, most of which had appeared previously in the Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The pieces in that collection were sometimes set with less than historically accurate accompaniments. In this case, even the song is a modern fabrication, apparently written by Parisotti and passed off as a song by Pergolesi.
Free at Art Song Central:
- PDF: Se tu m’ami, se sospiri
- Key: F Minor
- Range: B♭3 - F5
- Source: Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Elsewhere on the Internet:
Mp3:
- There are many live recordings on YouTube
- There is an MP3 recording here
MIDI:
Text:
Se tu m’ami, se sospiri
Sol per me, gentil pastor,
Ho dolor de’ tuoi martiri,
Ho diletto del tuo amor,
Ma se pensi che soletto
Io ti debba riamar,
Pastorello, sei soggetto
Facilmente a t’ingannar.Bella rosa porporina
Oggi Silvia sceglierà,
Con la scusa della spina
Doman poi la sprezzerà.
Ma degli uomini il consiglio
Io per me non seguirò.
Non perché mi piace il giglio
Gli altri fiori sprezzerò.
IPA Transcription:
IPA for Se tu m’ami, se sospiri, courtesy of IPANow! transcription software.
- Recmusic.org has texts and translations.
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