If Pity reign with Beauty (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2023-11-01)  CPDL #76864:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2023-11-01).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 299 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: If Pity reign with Beauty
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: Solo Soprano + SAA
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for solo soprano and three-part accompanying ensemble - soprano, mezzo-soprano and alto - of an anonymous poem taken from a madrigal by George Kirbye (publ. 1597).

Original text and translations

English text

If Pity reign with Beauty,
Then may I be assured
That what my harms procured
May yield me help of duty:
For wrongful she was never.

Then why should I still
In despair persever?