This endris night (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2023-11-01)  CPDL #76863:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2023-11-01).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 441 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: This endris night
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Christmas (secular)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A five-part Christmas carol, setting words taken from an anonymous fifteenth century song. The solo sections should be sung from within the choir.

Original text and translations

English text

This endris night I saw a sight, a star as bright as day,
And ever among, a maiden sung: Lullay, by by lullay.
This lovely lady sat and sung, and to her child did say:
My son, my brother, father dear, why liest thou thus in hay?

O sweet thing, since thou’rt a king, why art thou laid in stall?
Why dost thou not ordain thy bed in some great kinges hall?
Methinks it right that king or knight should lie in good array;
And then among, it were no wrong to sing By by lullay.

O Mary mild, I am thy child; and though I lie in stall,
Great lords and dukes shall worship me, and so shall kinges all;
And angels bright they do me light, thou know’st it is no nay.
And for that sight though may’st delight to sing By by lullay.

Now, sweet son, for so ’tis come all things be at thy will,
I prithee, grant to me a boon, if it be right and skill:
That child or man, that will or can be merry on this day,
To bliss though bring: that I may sing Lullay, by by lullay,