In deep distress (John Mundy)

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  • CPDL #25401:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Capella.png
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 35 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transposed up a tone.
Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-02-28).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 36 kB   Copyright: GnuGPL
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Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-20).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan

General Information

Title: In deep distress
Composer: John Mundy

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1594

Description: No. 18 in Songs and Psalmes

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Original text and translations

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In deep distress to live without delight,
Were such a life as few I think would crave.
In pangs and pains to languish day and night,
Were too, too much for one poor soul to have.
If weal and woe will thus continue strife,
A gentle death were good to cut off such a life.

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