Madrigal (Cyril Bradley Rootham)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77837:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 631 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Madrigal
Composer: Cyril Bradley Rootham
Lyricist: Thomas Campion
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1913 Stainer & Bell
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Original text and translations

English text

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet!
Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet!
There, wrapp’d in cloud of sorrow, pity move,
And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love:
But if she scorns my never-ceasing pain,
Then burst with sighing in her sight and ne’er return again.

All that I sung still to her praise did tend,
Still she was first; still she my songs did end;
Yet she my love and music both doth fly,
The music that her echo is and beauty’s sympathy.
Then let my notes pursue her scornful flight:
It shall suffice that they were breath’d and died for her delight.