Queen Anne Boleyn's Lament (Robert Johnson)
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- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2003-11-04). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 104 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Queen Anne Boleyn's Lament
Composer: Robert Johnson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SAAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Apparently a contrafactum: "Verses...from an ancient MS; the music by Robert Johnson from another."
External websites: Recorded by I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble on their CD "Defiled Is My (Middle) Name". 2 minute mp3 clip on line
Original text and translations
English text
Defiled is my name, full sore,
through cruel spite and false report
that I may say for ever more
farewell my joy, adieu comfort.
Full wrongfully ye judge of me
unto my fame a mortal wound
say what ye list it will not be,
ye seek for that cannot be found.