Dainty white pearl (Michael East)

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• (Posted 2025-03-27)  CPDL #84321: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-03-27).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Edition prepared from the primary source.

• (Posted 2011-08-09)  CPDL #24127:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-09).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

• (Posted 2004-01-14)  CPDL #06491:         

Editor: Ken Williams (submitted 2004-01-14).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 128 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

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General Information

Title: Dainty white pearl
Composer: Michael East

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1610 Third set of Bookes
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Dainty white pearl, and you fresh-smiling roses,
The nectar sweet distilling,
Oh, why are you unwilling
Of my sighs inly firing ?
Ah yet my soul herself in them discloses,
Some relief thence desiring.