O Signore, dal tetto natìo

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Le cento migliori liriche della lingua italiana
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O SIGNORE, dal tetto natio
ci chiamasti con santa promessa
noi siam corsi all' invito d'un dio,
giubilando per 1' aspro sentier
ma la fronte avvilita e dimessa
anno i servi già baldi e valenti
Deh, non far che ludibrio alle genti.

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Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism - Page 329
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David R. B. Kimbell - 1985 - 720 pages - Preview

idealized hymn tune

'O Signore, dal tetto natio' (I Lombardi, Act iv): . . .

Dalle trombe di guerre uscian le note Come di voce che si raccomanda, D'una gente che gema in duri stenti E de' perduti beni si rammenti.

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"Arpa d'or dei fatidici vati: the Verdian patriotic chorus in the 1840s"
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Roger Parker - 1997 - 141 pages - Preview

... «Va pensiero», «O Signore, dal tetto natio» (from "I lombardi alla prima crociata" [1843]), and «Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia» (from Ernani [1844]) — a distinctive musical style (one that they almost invariably link, ...

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The Grove book of operas - Page 350
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Stanley Sadie, Laura Williams Macy - 2006 - 740 pages - Preview
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The Lombard camp near Rachel's tomb.
The Lombards, dying of thirst, conjure up visions of their distant homeland in the famous chorus

'O Signore, dal tetto natio',

a number whose hymn-like slowness and predominantly unison texture ...

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The Opera Lover's Companion - Page 478
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Charles Osborne - 2007 - 640 pages - Preview

crusaders and pilgrims lament their fate, without water and surrounded by desert

-- 'O Signore dal tetto natio'.

Giselda, Arvino and the hermit arrive to announce that the fountain of Siloam is miraculously flowing.

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Verdi's middle period, 1849-1859: source studies, analysis, and ... - Page 198
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Martin Chusid - 1997 - 436 pages - Preview

Yet it could be pointed out that even before the famed Nabucco chorus

"Va pensiero sull'ali dorate"

or the choral prayer

"O Signore, dal tetto natio"

of his following opera, I Lombardi alla prima Crociata (1843), which is organized ...

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Write All These Down: Essays on Music - Page 300
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Joseph Kerman - 1998 - 359 pages - Preview

The famous patriotic unison chorus in the previous scene,

"O Signore, dal tetto natio" —

Matz says it is still taught to Italian schoolchildren — is by common consent sadly inferior to Nabucco's "Va, pensiero," on which it was closely ...

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The Complete Verdi Libretti: I Lombardi ; Luisa Miller ; Macbeth ; ...
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The siege of Venice
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Jonathan Keates - 2005 - 495 pages - Snippet view

Lombardi, what was more, contained
one of his most popular choruses,
'O Signore dal tetto natio', an obvious attempt to capitalise on the ...

Many members of the Treviso audience would already have known 'O Signore dal tetto natio', ...

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Melancolia e musica: creatività e sofferenza mentale - Page 71
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Vittorio Volterra - 2002 - 235 pages - Preview

Proprio così esclamano nostalgicamente "I Lombardi alla prima crociata" nel celebre "O Signore, dal tetto natio".

Alla voce del coro che, abbandonato il pathos elegiaco, assume in questa frase toni di svagata irresponsabilità, si accompagna ...

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