Draw on, Sweet Night (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2024-10-28)  CPDL #82477:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2024-10-28).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 336 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Draw on, Sweet Night
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for SATB of the text of John Willby's madrigal 'Draw on, Sweet Night' from the Second Set of Madrigals for 3-6 voices (publ.1598). The tenor line is based on the notes of Thomas Campion's song 'Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.'

Original text and translations

English text

Draw on, Sweet Night, best friend unto those cares
That do arise from painful melancholy.
My life so ill through want of comfort fares,
that unto thee I consecrate it wholly.

Sweet Night, draw on! My griefs when they be told
To shades and darkness find some ease from paining,
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
I then shall have best time for my complaining.