Andrea Gabrieli’s Dialogo “Dunque fia vero” is one of three 7-part madrigals printed after the Concerti di Giovanni e Andrea Gabrieli, (Venice 1586).
Although there is a considerable amount of antiphonal writing, particularly between the two canto parts and the two basso parts, this is not a regular double-choir piece, and it needs to be performed with all the performers grouped together in one place.
(Bernard Thomas)
Translation:
So will it be true, my dear phoenix,
That these sweet lips and this breast,
My dear treasures, will make for someone else the
Wedding day joyful and happy?
So, will it be true, that you, the living source
Of this my spirit full of love
Will uproot and cover yourself with other ground,
And not this miserable body of mine?
Secunda pars
So, cruel Love, that you know
How many sighs, how many burning sparks
Consume my heart with pains and torments.
Will an unjust good fortune
Come to he who has never felt the arrow would (of Love),
And I will die while suffering a thousand bitter torments?
