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"Se tu della mia morte" ("If you of my death") is an aria from act 3 of Alessandro Scarlatti's 1697 opera La caduta de' decemviri (The fall of the decemviri) to a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia.
The da capo aria in G minor is accompanied only by a basso continuo. Its time signature is 12/8 to a tempo of andante and it is 24 bars long. The vocal range for a castrato soprano is from D4 to F5. It has been transposed to various keys for different voice types.
The aria gained popularity as a concert aria when it appeared in 1886 in the collection Arie antiche by Alessandro Parisotti, published by Casa Ricordi in Milan.
Lyrics
Appio Claudio has just attempted suicide, but Valeria, who loves him despite his rejection, has prevented it. "If I cannot die by my own hand, may your eyes kill me."
References
External links
Se tu della mia morte: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
English translation, recmusic.org
Alessandro Scarlatti: "Se tu della mia morte", details
"Se tu della mia morte" on YouTube, Sonia Theodoridou
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