Ah, dear heart, why do you rise? (Orlando Gibbons)

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CPDL #20818:   Capella

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Keyboard reduction of vocal parts added for practice, though should be sung a cappella.

• CPDL #10237:

Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-26).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 49 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan.

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Title: Ah, dear heart, why do you rise?
Composer: Orlando Gibbons

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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English text

Ah, Dear heart, why do you rise!
The light that shines comes from thine eyes ;
The day breaks not, it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
Stay, or else my joys will die,
And perish in their infancy.