When shall my wretched life (John Wilbye)

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  • CPDL #24375:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-09-06).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 46 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: This version is set as SSATTB, since the original Alto has a lower range than the Tenor. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

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Title: When shall my wretched life
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: No. 25 from The 1st Set of Madrigals. Original version is SSSATB.

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Original text and translations

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When shall my wretched life give place to death?
That my sad cares may be enforc’d to leave me.
Come, saddest shadow, stop my vital breath,
For I am thine, then let not care bereave thee
Of thy sad thrall but, with thy fatal dart,
Kill care and me, while care lies at my heart.