Sing we and chaunt it a 4 (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
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(Posted 2019-11-30) CPDL #56126:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-11-30). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 58 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file is in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Sing we and chaunt it, Ballet Madrigal (another setting is for 8 vv.)
Composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella (keyboard reduction ad lib.)
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 10, no. 307
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Original text and translations
English text
Sing we and chaunt it,
While love doth grant it,
Fa la la.
Not long youth lasteth,
And old age hasteth;
Now is best leisure
To take our pleasure.
Fa la la.
