Farewell, my love (George Kirbye)

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• CPDL #25501:        Farewell,_my_love.cap 

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-28).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: From the 1891 edition, edited by G. E. P. Arkwright, but in the original key (SSAT). Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• CPDL #25500:        Farewell,_my_love_down_a_minor_third.cap 

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-28).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: From the 1891 edition, edited by G. E. P. Arkwright, and similarly transposed down a minor third from the original (SATB). Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

General Information

Title: Farewell, my love
Composer: George Kirbye

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
or SSAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1597 in The first set of English madrigalls to 4-6 voyces, no. 5
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Original text and translations

English text

Farewell, my love, I part contented,
Since ‘tis ordain’d that I must leave thee:
Oh, might I stay, although tormented,
The pain next death would little grieve me.
No greater torment can be proved
Than thus to part from my beloved.