Go, Damon go (Stephen Paxton)

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• (Posted 2022-04-02)  CPDL #68708: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-04-02).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Written for low voices, this edition is also available transposed up an octave for high voices.

General Information

Title: Go, Damon go
Composer: Stephen Paxton
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: TTTB or SSSA
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1786
Description: Published as a riposte to Thomas Brewer's Turn Amarillis.

Original text and translations

English text

Go, Damon go, Amarillis bids adieu.
Go seek another love, but prove to her more true.
No, I care not for your pretty arbour nigh,
Altho' great Apollo cannot spy:
Nor will I sit to hear you play,
Nor tune my voice to your roundelay.