So light is love (John Wilbye)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-26). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 71 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a major second from original. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: So light is love
Composer: John Wilbye
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1598 in The Second Set of Madrigals for 3-6 voices, no. 4
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Original text and translations
English text
So light is love, in matchless beauty shining,
When she revisits Cypris' hallow'd bowers,
Two feeble doves, harness'd in silken twining,
Can draw her chariot 'midst the Paphian flowers.
Lightness to love, how ill it fitteth,
So heavy on my heart, O! on my heart he sitteth.