The curtain drawn (Giles Farnaby)
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- CPDL #20811: 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.
- CPDL #14904: NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-10). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 31 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 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: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)
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Original text and translations
English text
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.