Susanna fair some time of love (Giles Farnaby)

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• CPDL #24083:  [ Capella]

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-03).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 124 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A reformating of #14903, transposed down a minor 3rd. At the original pitch, the work is really SSTB and, even transposed, is high for alto, the range going higher than the soprano. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

• CPDL #14903:  NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-10).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #10107: 

Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 13 pages, 123 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan

General Information

Title: Susanna fair
Composer: Giles Farnaby

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
or SSTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)

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Original text and translations

English text

Susanna fair some time of love requested,
by suitors false, whom her sweet looks allur'd,
was in her heart full sad and sore molested,
feeling such force of bitterness endur'd,
to them she said: If I by craft procur'd
do yield to your request with grief and sighing,
I lose my soul, yet hap your plaint denying,
you will me judge to death reproachfully,
but rather would I keep innocence,
e'en dying, than live in fault,
to offend my God on high.