Se tu mami alessandro parisotti biography
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Some find my taste in music laughable, or baffling, or strange, or pedestrian. It's probably all of those, depending on the person doing the critique. But it's mine, and inom take delight in it. inom want to share examples of the music I love, with the thought that maybe others will share some of the pleasure I have found, or at least get a good laugh.
Se tu m'ami, se sospiri (pronounced more or less "Say two Mommy, say so speedy", better translated as "If you love me, if you sigh") is a poem from the early 18th century by Paolo Antonio Rolli. It was set to music in the late 19th century by Alessandro Parisotti, who for some reason attributed the composition to Giovanni Pergolesi. Why? Perhaps because Pergolesi lived around the time that Rolli wrote the poem, and Parisotti thought a spurious attribution would give his melody more credibility; perhaps because the melody evoked a more Baroque feel that seemed out of place in Parisotti's late Romantic era; perhaps something else entire
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Se tu m'ami by A. Parisotti
The song I chose for my performance is Se tu m'ami. The composer was Alessandro Parisotti and the lyricist is Paolo Rolli. The song was first published in 1885 but it was written in a poem form in the 1700s. However there is some controversy on who actually wrote it.
Se tu M’ami is an Italian Operatto and was the first song I have attempted to sing in Italian. This was a challenge to me on many levels learning the words and accents as well as a very different musical style.This song is about a woman who has a young man in love with her and while she likes the attention she doesn’t want to only be with him.
The translation of the lyrics are below:
If you love me, if you
sigh for me, gentle shepherd,
your pain hurts me,
yet I delight in your love.
But if you think that
I must return my love only to you,
then, shepherd boy, you are
easily deceived.
A beautiful purple rose
Silvia will choose today -
because of its thorns,
she will förakta it
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Alessandro Parisotti
Italian composer
Alessandro Parisotti (24 July 1853 – 4 April 1913) was an Italian composer and music editor.
Life and career
[edit]Though also a composer, Alessandro Parisotti is better known today as the original editor of a collection of songs known as Arie antiche (Arie antiche: ad una voce per canto e pianoforte, Milan, 1885–1888). The original collection comprises three volumes of songs or arias published as a primer to study classical singing, but the three volumes have since been reduced to single-volumed extracts known as the 24 Italian Songs and Arias. The original Arie Antiche are still available through Ricordi, Schirmer, and Kalmus.
Parisotti collected these antique arias (arie antiche is the Italian) in what was the 19th century vogue for discovering forgotten old or antique music from the classical and baroque eras. The most famous example of this practice of reclaiming forgotten music is Mendelssohn's revival of Bach's