And must I needs depart then? (Thomas Bateson)

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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-05). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 71 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

Title: And must I needs depart then?
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1604

Description: From the First Set of English Madrigales: to 3, 4, 5 & 6 voices. Bateson was at that time organist of Chester Cathedral.

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English text

And must I needs depart, then?
Can pity none come nigh her?
Farewell, alas, desert then,
O break asunder, heart, to satisfy her.