How merrily we live (Michael East)
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- CPDL #24156:
Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-15). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 42 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Based on #11129. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
- CPDL #23868:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-07-10). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 60 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: TTB and SSA PDFs available. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
- CPDL #23867:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-07-10). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 71 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: 'Warley Camp' version for TTB. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century it was fashionable to revive the works of the early Jacobean madrigalists for use in afterpieces and other entertainments. Ravenscroft and Morley were frequent targets, but in this instance John Arnold, "Philo-Harmoniae, Organist of Great-Warley, Essex", has quarried Michael East's three part glee. The words have been given a local topicality, the harmonies have been simplified and the final bars have been reworked to produce a fashionable Da Capo format. It is possible that this version was fashioned for use during the king and queen's two-day military review at Warley Camp, 1778, commemorated in paintings by de Loutherbourg. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
- CPDL #11129: NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-02-28). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 26 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes:
- CPDL #05943:
- Editor: Bettina Blokland (submitted 2003-11-06). Score information: A4, 2 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Scorch plugin required. To view scores and midi files click on letter at bottom of page which matches composer's last name.
- CPDL #02538: Sibelius
- Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2001-04-22). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 40 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: How merrily we live
Composer: Michael East
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSA
or TTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: #4 of 'Second Set of Madrigals', publ. 1606.
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
How merrily we live that shepherds be,
roundelays still we sing with merry glee,
On the pleasant downs where as our flocks we see,
we feel no cares, we fear not fortune’s frowns,
we have no envy which sweet mirth confounds.