Browning Madame (Thomas Ravenscroft)

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• (Posted 2021-03-22)  CPDL #63637: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 103 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition comprises a modern realisation, and a statement of the piece in its original format.

• (Posted 1999-03-15)  CPDL #00359:     

Editor: Gordon J. Callon (submitted 1999-03-15).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 40 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Browning Madame
Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: SSS or TTT, or 3 equal voices
Genre: Secular, Canon

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1609 in Deuteromelia, no. 9
Description: The ground, stated as bars 1-8, is Browning, a popular song of the 1590s which was popular with composers as the basis for instrumental variations; notably by Elway Bevin (3 parts) and William Byrd (5 parts). For another catch with the same idea see Here is an old ground (John Hilton the younger).

Original text and translations

English text

Browning Madame, so merrily we sing.
The fairest flow'r in the garden green
Is in my love's breast full comely seen;
And with all the others compare she can,
Therefore now let us sing Browning Madame.