The nightingale (Thomas Bateson)

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CPDL #25698:  [ Icon_pdf.gif] [ Icon_snd.gif] [ Capella] 
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-03-05).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 31 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: At original pitch.

General Information

Title: The nightingale
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1604

Description: No. 3 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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The nightingale, so soon as April bringeth
Unto her rested sense a perfect waking,
While late bare earth proud of new clothing springeth,
Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making;
And mournfully bewailing,
Her throat in tunes expresseth:
What grief her breast oppresseth.