When others sing 'Venite exultemus' (John Dowland)
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- CPDL #2197: ABC.
- Editor: Laura Conrad (added 2001-03-21). Score information: kbytes Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: partbook format, vocal parts, no lute part
General Information
Title: When others sings 'Venite exultemus' (partbook format)
Composer: John Dowland
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: SB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: No VIII from Second Book of Songs or Ayres (1600)
Description: Third part of three. The perhaps confusing text is a fragment of a longer, anonymous poem that glorifies Anglicanism, and, more specifically, Queen Elizabeth. (i.e., "Eliza")
The Latin fragments are either Psalm titles or parts of prayers.
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Original text and translations
English text
- When others sing Venite exultemus,
- Stand by and turn to Noli aemulari,
- For Quare fremuerunt use Oremus;
- Vivat Eliza for an Ave Maria,
- And teach those swains that live about thy cell,
- To say Amen when thou dost pray so well.