Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)*:
Tu lo sai (with 4-measure introduction)
Text: Anonymous
Recorded (Schirmer Medium High) Key: E Major
Original (Baroque) Key: unknown
Teach-Track begins: 4 mm. before voice enters (4-mm. intro added)
Accompaniment Track begins: same as teach-track
Pianist: Daniel Michalak
* These dates according to The New Grove?s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Macmillan, London, 1980, ed. Stanley Sadie). The dates given in the Schirmer edition [(1650-1703)] have since been revised by more recent scholarship.
Notes © 1999 by Daniel O. Michalak
Tu lo sai quanto t'amai.
You [it] know how much you-I-loved,
lo sai, lo sai, crudel!
you it know, it you-know, cruel-one!
Io non bramo altra merce,
I (do) not desire other compensation,
ma ricordati di me,
but remeber-[yourself of] me,
e poi sprezza un infedel!
and then despise an unfaithful-one!