I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask [ ... ]
I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)
Song Cycle by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019)
1. I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 85
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.2. Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love  [sung text checked 1 time]
Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), copyright © [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 5
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. Greetings, miss, with nose not small  [sung text checked 1 time]
Greetings, miss, with nose not small [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 43
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.4. My woman says she will be no one's but mine  [sung text checked 1 time]
My woman says she will be no one's but mine. Not even should Jupiter himself wish to seduce her. She says: but what woman says to lover -- Write it on the wind or swift-running water.
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019)
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 70
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]5. Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya  [sung text checked 1 time]
Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), appears in Carmina, no. 60
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.6. You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love  [sung text checked 1 time]
You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 109
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.7. Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness!  [sung text checked 1 time]
Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness! That which is over and lost, you must count lost forever: Those radiant days that once shone upon you When you hastened to follow the girl wherever she led you That same girl whom you loved as no other woman will ever be loved -- (Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness!) The countless delights in the sports of love, When what you desired, she desired and desired just as much. (Wretched Catullus!) O, radiant indeed were the days that once shone upon you! Now suddenly she no longer wants your love, and you, being helpless must Give up this longing, cease to pursue her, Put an end to this torment and madness! (Wretched Catullus!) O immortal gods, if you truly have pity, Tear out from my heart this pestilence, this plague Whose insidious gnawing has driven all joy from my breast. I no longer ask that this woman should love me. Nor do I ask the impossible, that she be chaste; My only wish now is that I be healed, and this Terrible pain be assuaged.
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019) [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 8
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]8. I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask  [sung text checked 1 time]
I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 85
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.