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.
Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-10).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 31 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Nwc.png
  • CPDL #10108:  Network.png
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.