Title: Sebben, crudele
Music: Antonio Caldara (ca. 1671-1736)
Text: Unknown authorship
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.
Free at Art Song Central:
- PDF: Sebben, crudele (low)
- Key: E♭ Major
- Range: C4 – D5
- Note: This is Parisotti’s well known arrangement, transcribed.
- PDF: Sebben, crudele (high)
- Key: F Major
- Range: D4 – E5
- Note: This is Parisotti’s well known arrangement.
- Source: Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- PDF: Sebben, crudele (high)
- Key: F Major
- Range: D4 – E5
- Note: This is Parisotti’s well known arrangement, transcribed.
Elsewhere on the Internet:
- Transcribed (playable and transposable) at Musescore.com
Mp3:
- Low version, with melody
- High version, with melody
- Low version, accompaniment only
- High version, accompaniment only
Text:
Sebben, crudele,
Mi fai languir,
Sempre fedele
Ti voglio amar.Con la lunghezza
Del mio servir
La tua fierezza
Saprò stancar.
IPA Transcription:
IPA for Sebben, crudele, courtesy of IPANow! transcription software.
- Here is an info sheet I’ve used with my students.
- Recmusic.org has texts and translations.
