This CPDL Visitor ChoralWiki is a daily-updated read-only mirror of the main Contributor ChoralWiki.
To submit scores or edit pages at the Contributor ChoralWiki please click here (where you must register/login).
To submit scores or edit pages at the Contributor ChoralWiki please click here (where you must register/login).
Retire my soul (William Byrd)
From ChoralWiki
Music files
= BROKEN LINK 
= PDF FILE 
= MIDI FILE 
= POSTSCRIPT FILE Music Program = NOTATION FILE
= EXTERNAL SITE (DISCLAIMER) 
= EXTERNAL PDF FILE 
= EXTERNAL MIDI FILE 
= SCORE ERROR 
= HELP- CPDL #8690:
- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2004-12-06). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 98 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Revised Nov 08
General Information
Title: Retire my soul
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets... (1611), no.17
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
Retire my soule, consider thine estate,
And justly summe thy lavish sinnes account.
Times deare expence, and costly pleasures rate,
How follyes grow, how vanities amount.
Write all these down downe, in pale Deathes reckoning tables,
Thy dayes will seeme but dreames, thy hopes but fables.
