Compel the hawk to sit (William Byrd)

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• (Posted 2024-01-31)  CPDL #78959:       

Editor: David Masao Zimmerman (submitted 2024-01-31).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 266 kB   Copyright: CC BY

Edition notes: Modern notation (clefs, time signature, barlines) with original pitches, note values, and text underlay. Includes keyboard reduction.

• (Posted 2022-11-15)  CPDL #71563:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2022-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 81 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2008-05-10)  CPDL #16894:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-05-10).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 246 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised Sept 2021 (editorial, formatting)

General Information

Title: Compel the Hawk to sit
Composer: William Byrd
Lyricist: Thomas Churchyard^{create page} (c.1520-1604)

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1589 in Songs of sundrie natures, no. 28
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English text

Compell the Hawke to sitt that is unmand,
or make the Hound untaught, to draw the Deere,
or bring the free against his will in band,
or move the sad a pleasant tale to heare,
your time is lost, and you are neare the neere:
So Love ne learnes by force the knot to knit,
he serves but those that feele sweete fancyes fit.