Il Bianco E Dolce Cigno - Jacob Arcadelt

[jpstenino]

Wonderful, thank you. 

[acousticdoug]

Does nobody know what this song is about?

[cova79]

@acousticdoug The text reads:

The white and sweet swan dies weeping

and I too come weeping to the end of my life

But if I feel no other pain in dying

I'd be glad to die a thousand times a day.

[acousticdoug]

@cova79 ancient belief was that swans only sang when they died. The "inside" joke of the arotocrasy was that dieing meant a certain... climax.... it is a double ontandra. Hence "I'd be glad to die a thousand times a day"

[TheChorister51]

So beautiful.