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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-03-09). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 80 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Gently falls the evening shade
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Philip Latimer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1881 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 14, no. 407
Description: This is a contrafactum of Marenzio's madrigal, Dissi a l'amata mia lucida stella, with one or two minor changes.
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Original text and translations
English text
Gently falls the evening shade,
Veiling earth and sky.
O come, sweet night, that can persuade
The love that day doth still deny.
Then stay! O lady, stay and hear me,
Ah! do not fear me.