# O tu ch'innanzi morte (L'Orfeo)

- Music: C. Monteverdi (died 1643)
- Words: no source names who wrote them
- Licence of the score: Public Domain
- Credit: Typeset by Anonymous for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain)
- Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=2246

## The words

O tu ch'innanzi mort'a queste rive  
Temerario te'n vieni, arresta i passi  
Solcar quest'onde ad huom mortal non dassi  
Ne può co'morti albergo haver chi vive  
Che? voi forse nemico al mio signore  
Cerbero trar da le tartaree porte O rapir  
brami sua cara consorte D'impudico  
desire acceso il core? Pon fre no al  
foll'ardir, ch'entr'al mio legno No accorro  
più mai corporea salma Sì de  
gli antichi oltragg'ancor nel'alma Serbo  
acerba memoria e giusto sdegno.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).