The curtain drawn (Giles Farnaby)

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CPDL #20811: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Capella
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-12).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
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Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-10).   Copyright: CPDL
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Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 45 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan

General Information

Title: The curtain drawn
Composer: Giles Farnaby

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

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

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Original text and translations

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The curtain drawn, I saw my love lie sleeping;
Thrice happy was that peeping,
for viewing her sweet lying,
preserves my life and keeps my soul from dying.
Of thousand joys, missing her, I had missed all,
whose sight revives me more than ruby pearl and crystal.