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Description:
Set to a rare extant poem of a medieval trobadora,
Na Maria is a praise of Mary is in neo-medieval
style. Performed on Italian television and in
France for a Donne in Musiche series for solo
soprano.
Translation:
Lady Maria, in you merit and distinction, joy
and intelligence and perfect beauty, hospitality
and honor and distinction, your noble speech and
pleasing company, you sweet face and merry disposition,
the sweet look and the loving expression that
exist in you without pretension cause me to turn
toward you with a pure heart.
Thus I pray you, if it please you that true love
and celebration and sweet humility should bring
me such relief with you, if it please you, lovely
woman, than give me that which most hope and joy
promises for in you lie my desire and my heart
and from you stems all my happiness, and because
of you I'm often sighing.
And because merit and beauty raise you high above
all others (for none surpass you), I pray you,
please, by this which does you honor, don't grant
your love to a deceitful lover.
Lovely woman, whom joy and noble speech uplift,
and merit, to you my stanzas go, for in you are
gaiety and happiness, and all good things one
could ask of a woman.
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