Se i languidi miei sguardi (Lettera amorosa)

Song TitleSe i languidi miei sguardi (Lettera amorosa) (Search)
Composer(s):Claudio Monteverdi
Author(s):Claudio Achillini
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Hair; Addressee: Letters; Addressee: Lover; Alabaster; Amorous; Aspiring; Bathing; Beautiful; Beauty; Beloved; Binding; Blonde; Branches; Breasts; Burning; Chains; Cliffs; Clouds; Coursing; Cupid; Cutting; Death; Depth of Love; Desire; Divine; Dust; Dying; Escaping; Eternal; Expression of Love; Eyes; Faces; Faithful; Falling; Fate; Fates; Fire; Flames; Flesh; Forests; Fragile; Frozen; Glances; Gold; Golden; Hair; Happy; Hearts; Heaven; Heavenly; Idols; Ink; Labyrinths; Lace; Languid; Letters; Liberty; Life; Light; Love; Love Letters; Messengers; Metaphor: Beauty as Hunter; Metaphor: Face as Landscape; Metaphor: Hair as Forest; Metaphor: Hair as Rain; Metaphor: Hair as Sparks; Metaphor: Hair as Trap; Milky; Miracles; Naked; Nona; Paradise; Passion; Paths; Pens; Personification: Beauty; Personification: Death; Personification: Hair; Personification: Thoughts; Power; Power of Love; Precious; Prey; Prices; Prisoners; Rain; Rays; Reading; Recitative; Rich; Rising; Roman Mythology; Shadows; Shelter; Shining; Sighs; Snow; Souls; Spheres; Spindles; Spirits; Storms; Streams; Sweet; Thoughts; Traps; Trophies; Waves; Weaving; Words
First LineSe i languidi miei sguardi (Search)
Average Duration7:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1619 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=157591
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageItalian (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/4/42/IMSLP55459-PMLP82379-Monteverdi_Se_I_Languidi_Miei_Sguardi.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCol16JRGd8
Catalog DesignationICM 81 (Search)
Range: C4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyA minor (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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