Draw on, sweet night (John Wilbye)

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• CPDL #14783:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2007-09-03).   Score information: A4, 11 pages   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

• CPDL #10277:

Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 108 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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

• CPDL #09298: NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 75 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #00436: Finale 1998

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-03-25).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 163 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Draw On, Sweet Night

Composer: John Wilbye
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composer^{create page}

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1609

Description: No.31 from The 2nd Set of Madrigals

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Original text and translations

English text

Draw on, Sweet Night, friend unto those cares
That do arise from painful melancholy.
My life so ill through want of comfort fares,
that unto thee I consecrate it wholly.
Sweet Night, draw on
My griefs when they be told to shades
and darkness find some ease from paining,
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
I then shall have best time for my complaining.