Lady, when I behold your passions (Giles Farnaby)

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CPDL #24062: [ ]  [ Capella] 

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-07-31).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 45 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformating of #14894, transposed down a major 3rd. At the original pitch, the madrigal is really SSTB. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

• CPDL #14894:

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-10).   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Files listed alphabetically by nationality and composer. Some composers have separate pages.

• CPDL #10080:

Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-11).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 53 kB   Copyright: Personal

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

General Information

Title: Lady, when I behold your passions
Composer: Giles Farnaby

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

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)

Description: "Danube" needs to be pronounced Dan-u-bee.

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Original text and translations

English text

Lady, when I behold your passions,
so divers and so oft constrained,
up on such slight or no occasions,
as though you were with grief sore pained,
I enter into these persuasions:
A man might sail from Trent unto Danube,
and yet not find so strange a piece as you be.