Beauty is a lovely sweet (Thomas Bateson)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-03-04). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 60 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Because the alto part is very low in places, it has been set in the octave-below-treble clef. Revised files uploaded 3/3/18. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Beauty is a lovely sweet
Composer: Thomas Bateson
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSA
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1598 in The First Set of English Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 1
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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.