Beauty is a lovely sweet (Thomas Bateson)

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CPDL #25690:  [ ] [ ] [ Capella] 

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-03-04).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 32 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Because the alto part is very low in places, it has been set in the octave-below-treble clef.

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Title: Beauty is a lovely sweet
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1604

Description: No. 1 from The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Thomas Bateson)

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Original text and translations

English text

Beauty is a lovely sweet,
Where pure white and crimson meet.
Join’d with favour of the face,
Chiefest flow’r of female race.
But if virtue might be seen,
It would more delight the eyne.