Title: O cessate di piagarmi (from an aria in Pompeo)
Music: Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Text: Nicoló Minato (ca.1630-1698)
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. For more stylistically correct versions of most of these common Italian songs and arias, consider purchasing 26 Italian Songs and Arias, edited by John Glenn Paton, which is available in Medium High and Medium Low editions that each come with an accompaniment CD.
Free at Art Song Central:
- PDF: O cessate di piagarmi
- Key: E Minor
- Range: D♯4 – D5
- Note: This is Parisotti’s well known arrangement.
- Source: Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- PDF: O cessate di piagarmi
- Key: D Minor
- Range: C♯4 – C5 (D5 with given ornamentation)
- Source: German, French and Italian Song Classics
Elsewhere on the Internet:
Mp3:
MIDI:
O cessate di piagarmi,
O lasciatemi morir!
Luc’ ingrate,
Dispietate,
Più del gelo e più del marmi
Fredde e sorde a’ miei martir.
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