Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers (Thomas Tomkins)

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• (Posted 2017-02-19)  CPDL #43199:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-02-19).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 89 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2010-01-01)  CPDL #20734:     

Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2010-01-01).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 62 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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

• (Posted 2006-05-07)  CPDL #11636:         

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• (Posted 2005-11-15)  CPDL #10141: 

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General Information

Title: Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers
Composer: Thomas Tomkins

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1605
    2nd published: 1622 in Songs of 3-6 parts, no. 22
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Original text and translations

English text

Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers,
Better are the country bowers.
Winter is gone, the trees are springing,
Birds on ev'ry hedge sit singing.
Hark, how they chirp, come, love, delay not,
come, come, sweet love, O, come and stay not.