Ah, dear heart, why do you rise? (Orlando Gibbons)

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  • (Posted 2017-10-28)  CPDL #47063:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-10-28).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: A capella version of #20818.
  • (Posted 2014-05-07)  CPDL #31853:         
Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2014-05-07).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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  • (Posted 2010-01-13)  CPDL #20818:         
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.
  • (Posted 2005-11-26)  CPDL #10237:  Network.png
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: SecularMadrigal

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

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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.