Hark, hear you not? (Oriana's Epitaph) (Thomas Bateson)

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• (Posted 2011-07-17)  CPDL #23918:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-07-17).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 127 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Files revised 11/03/12, after comparison with the 1840 facsimile edition. Revised files uploaded 29/01/19.

• (Posted 2007-09-09)  CPDL #14846:         

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-09).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2005-11-15)  CPDL #10118: 

Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 11 pages, 108 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan.

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General Information

Title: Hark, hear ye not? (Oriana's Epitaph)
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1604 in The First Set of English Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 22
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Hark, hear you not a heav'nly harmony?
Is't Jove, think you, that plays upon the Spheres?
Heav'ns, is not this heav'nly melody?
Where Jove himself a part in music bears.
Now comes in a choir of nightengales.
Mark how the Nymphs and shepherds of the dales,
how all do join together in the praise
of Orianae's life and happy days.
Then sing ye shepherds and Nymphs of Diana,
in heav'n lives Oriana.