So light is love (John Wilbye)

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  • CPDL #24255:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-26).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transposed down a major second from original. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

General Information

Title: So light is love
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SST

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: No. 4 from The 2nd Set of Madrigals

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Original text and translations

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So light is love, in matchless beauty shining,
When she revisits Cypris' hallow'd bowers,
Two feeble doves, harness'd in silken twining,
Can draw her chariot 'midst the Paphian flowers.
Lightness to love, how ill it fitteth,
So heavy on my heart, O! on my heart he sitteth.