Fly Love aloft (John Wilbye)

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• (Posted 2018-11-15)  CPDL #51979:     

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2018-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 461 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2017-01-12)  CPDL #42621:  Transposed editions, Part Midis and Mp3s Available

Editor: Monique Rio (submitted 2017-01-12).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 274 kB   Copyright: CC BY 4.0

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• (Posted 2011-10-01)  CPDL #24641:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-10-01).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a tone from the original for SAB. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

• (Posted 2005-10-06)  CPDL #09911:     

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2005-10-06).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 63 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Fly Love aloft
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1598 in The First Set of Madrigals for 3-6 voices, no. 1
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Original text and translations

English text

Fly, Love, aloft to heav'n and look out Fortune,
Then sweetly, sweetly, sweetly her importune,
That I from my Calisto best beloved
As you and she set down be never moved.
And, Love, to Carimel see you commend me,
Fortune for his sweet sake may chance befriend me.