Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, volume 9 (2003) no. 1
http://www.sscm-jscm.org/v9/no1/hill.html
ISSN: 1089-747X
John Walter Hill
Beyond Isomorphism toward a Better Theory of Recitative
figure 3
Intensity, Pitch Tracings, Harmonicity, and Durations in a Speech by Orfeo Compared
with Peri’s and Caccini’s Musical Settings
| Orfeo: | O mio fedel, ne pur picciola stilla | De l’infinito mare |
| O, my friend, not even a small drop | of that infinite sea | |
| A gli occhi tuoi traspare | Che di dolcezza Amor nel cor distilla. | |
| to your eyes is disclosed | which love distills from sweetness in my heart. |