Sing we and chaunt it a 4 (Robert Lucas Pearsall)

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• (Posted 2023-11-27)  CPDL #77615:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 445 kB   Copyright: Personal

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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

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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, Partsong, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella (keyboard reduction ad lib.)

First published: 1877 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.