Lo! here my heart I leave (George Kirbye)

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• CPDL #25472:        Lo_here_my_heart_I_leave.cap 

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-25).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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

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Title: Lo! here my heart I leave
Composer: George Kirbye

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: No. 1 from The first set of English madrigalls to 4, 5 & 6 voyces (George Kirbye)

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Original text and translations

English text

Lo! here my heart I leave with her remaining,
That never yet did deign to do me pleasure;
And, when I seek to move her with complaining,
She scorns my sighs and tears, alas, past measure.
Sweet love, O turn her heart at last and joy me,
Or else her deep disdain will soon destroy me.