Deborah Mason

"Odi et Amo: Poems of Catullus" for Baritone and Piano

Year: 2024

Duration (in minutes): 4.5 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice

Publisher: Deborah Mason



Score PDF: Odi-et-Amo-Poems-of-Catullus.pdf

Description: The classic "Tormented Lover" poems from 5 B.C. Come, let us live and love, my Lesbia. Who cares if old men gossip with delight? Suns will rise and set, but, when our light goes out, We will sleep forever. So, give me a thousand kisses, then two hundred. Another thousand, another hundred - until we kiss More often than jealous, evil people curse us - Uncountable, untouched. Poor Catullus, no woman was ever loved The way you loved your Lesbia, Most faithful, most indulgent, Most careful to be kind. Yet she has shunned you and your fancy gifts That once she willingly enjoyed ... Don't be a fool and chase what runs away. Now I will be a real man, as hard as stone. But you'll be sorry when you're all alone, you bitch! Who will be kissing you? ... Whose lips will you nibble? ... Catullus, get a grip! I hate and I love, Why? you ask, I do not know, but tortured, only feel that it is so. From Catullus V, VIII, LXXXV and LXXXVII Roman Poet 84-52 BC

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