Ah, dear heart, why do you rise? (Orlando Gibbons)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-10-28). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 61 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: A capella version of #20818.
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2014-05-07). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-13). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 83 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Revised files uploaded 28/10/17.
- Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-26). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 49 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan.
General Information
Title: Ah, dear heart, why do you rise?
Composer: Orlando Gibbons
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1612 in The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets, no. 15
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Original text and translations
English text
Ah, dear heart, why do you rise!
The light that shines comes from thine eyes ;
The day breaks not, it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
Stay, or else my joys will die,
And perish in their infancy.