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Ochi piançete et tu cor tribulato

anonymous ballata

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 37v (2/2).

Editions

Italian Secular Music, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1978. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XI, p. 107.

Literature

1. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Rhapsodic elements in north-Italian polyphony', Musica Disciplina, XXXVII (1983), p. 93.
2. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Ripetizioni di sillabe e parole nella musica profana italiana del Trecento e del primo Quattrocento', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 93-120.

Recordings

1. Songs and Dances of 14th Century Italy, Landini Consort, Richard Hill (C-T), Rogers Covey-Crump (T): University of East Anglia UEA 78001 (GB).
2. A Song for Francesca. Music in Italy, 1330-1430, Gothic Voices, Andrew Lawrence-King (medieval harp), directed by Christopher Page (1987): Hyperion CDA 66286.

Text

Ochi piangete et tu cor tribulato,
da poichè 'l me conviene
et con dolorose pene,
de la donna real esser privato
oimè, privato.

Piangete tanto che 'l vegna pietate,
per universo mondo
a zascuna persona