Off topic: Caro mio ben Thread poster: Gerard de Noord
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Gerard de Noord 
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Caro mio ben, credimi almen, senza di te languisce il cor,
caro mio ben, senza di te languisce il cor.
Il tuo fedel sospira ognor.
Cessa, crudel, tanto rigor!
Cessa crudel, tanto rigor, tanto rigor!
Caro mio ben, credimi almen, senza di te languisce il cor,
caro mio ben, credimi almen,senza di te languisce il cor.
I do apologize for asking this question in English. I wouldn't have to ask this question if I could speak Italian.
Our cho... See more Caro mio ben, credimi almen, senza di te languisce il cor,
caro mio ben, senza di te languisce il cor.
Il tuo fedel sospira ognor.
Cessa, crudel, tanto rigor!
Cessa crudel, tanto rigor, tanto rigor!
Caro mio ben, credimi almen, senza di te languisce il cor,
caro mio ben, credimi almen,senza di te languisce il cor.
I do apologize for asking this question in English. I wouldn't have to ask this question if I could speak Italian.
Our choir is practicing this beatiful song and I have two problems with the proper Italian pronunciation:
Il tuo fedel - we have one note for tuo. What should the soprana sing: too, tow, tvo?
Sospira ognor - I beleive it's short for sospira ognora - we have four notes. How would an Italian squash these words into these four notes: sos-pee-ro-nyor, sos-pee-ra-nor?
Regards,
Gerard ▲ Collapse
| | | | | My 2 ceN(o)T(e)S | Feb 23, 2007 |
Hi Gerard,
in my opinion, the soprana should sing this way:
heel-two fedel (with Two pronounced as too-oh) for "Il tuo fedel"
and
sos-pee-ro-nyor - as you suggest - for "Sospira ognor"
Here again, you're right. Sospira ognor is short for sospira ognora.
Cheers,
Angelica
| | | | Gerard de Noord
France
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some useful links: at
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Caro_mio_ben_(Giuseppe_Giordani)&printable=yes
you'll find a pronunciation guide. I can't say if its good or not, because I'm not good at all at backtranslating pronunciation, but you should at least get an idea.<... See more some useful links: at
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Caro_mio_ben_(Giuseppe_Giordani)&printable=yes
you'll find a pronunciation guide. I can't say if its good or not, because I'm not good at all at backtranslating pronunciation, but you should at least get an idea.
at:
http://www.emusic.com/album/11003/11003234.html
you'll find a free download of the version sung by Beniamino Gigli, a very great Italian tenor of the past. I haven't tried it but it should be a pleasure to listen - and, besides being Italian, he came from a school that used to stress the importance of making words understandable even in virtuosistic singing.
Moreover...
1. The proper word is "soprano", not soprana. It is a masculine noun ("il soprano") even if it refers to a female singer (originally, the word was referred to the upper line of a four-part score for vocal music, with no reference to the singer, who might well have been a child or a "castrato"). Since nowadays sopranos are women, many Italians tend to say "la soprano" - making it a feminine noun with an unusual desinence in "-o" - but it never becames "soprana". You could find "soprana", in Italian texts, however, as the feminine form of the old and disused adjective "soprano" - that could generally be translated, more or less, as "above".
2. In Italian metrical writing, (e.g. when you count syllabes for making verses), when a word ends by a wovel and the next begins by another, the two syllabes are ordinarily perceived and counted as one, even when those wovel are not fit to form a diphtong in ordinary words (unless they are separated by the verse's caesura, I think). Thus, even in ordinary reading, "sospira ognor" should scan as so - spi - rao - gnor.
Enjoy you singing!
I think it was Auden who said something like "since our bliss in Paradise will be in singing together, we may as well just begin here"!
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Robert Tucker (X)
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Looking at a pdf of the vocal score from:
www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=320
it appears that "mio" has to be sung on one note even shorter than "tuo".
If you do not have a player for the midi file available there (it would be interesting to see Rosegarden play it but I don't currently have it installed and its installati... See more Looking at a pdf of the vocal score from:
www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=320
it appears that "mio" has to be sung on one note even shorter than "tuo".
If you do not have a player for the midi file available there (it would be interesting to see Rosegarden play it but I don't currently have it installed and its installation can be rather involved) there's a free .wma (rather more recent than the Gigli) on Lulu:
www.lulu.com/content/190425
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| | | | Gerard de Noord
France
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TOPIC STARTER | Thank you Alfredo | Feb 24, 2007 |
Thanks for all the links and your extensive reply. Beniamino Gigli was my mother's favourite.
Regards,
Gerard
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France
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TOPIC STARTER | Such a coincidence | Jun 11, 2018 |
Thank you for the link, Stefano,
Such a coincidence, I sang this last evening.
Cheers,
Gerard
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