If Love be blind (Thomas Bateson)

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  • CPDL #23878:  [ Icon_pdf.gif] [ Icon_snd.gif] [ Capella]
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-07-12).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 50 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
  • CPDL #10119:  Network.png
Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 49 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan
Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 36 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: If Love be blind
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1604

Description: No. 11 from The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Thomas Bateson)

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Original text and translations

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If Love be blind, how hath he then the sight,
With beauty's beams my careless heart to wound?
Or, if a boy, how hath he then the might,
The mightiest conquerors to bring to ground,?
O no, he is not blind, but I that lead
My thoughts the ways that bring to restless fears,
Nor yet a boy, but I, that live in dread,
Mixed with hope, and seek for joy in tears.

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