You gentle nymphs (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2023-12-20)  CPDL #78417:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 290 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2017-11-25)  CPDL #47700:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-11-25).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #15677, transposed down a minor 2nd to E♭.

• (Posted 2017-11-19)  CPDL #47519:     

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2017-11-19).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 30 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2007-12-15)  CPDL #15677:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2007-12-15).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 56 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: You gentle nymphs
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Anonymous - Elizabethan

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1898 in Eight Four-Part Songs, no. 5
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Original text and translations

English text You gentle nymphs that on the meadows play, and oft relate the love of shepherds young; Come, sit you down, for if you please to stay, now you may hear an uncouth passion sung. A youth there is, and I am that poor groom that's fall'n in love, and cannot tell with whom.

German translation Ihr zarten Nymphen, die ihr spielt auf diesen Wiesen und oft erzählt von junger Hirten Lieb - kommt, setzt euch. So ihr zu bleiben wollt erkiesen, dann sollt ihr hörn ein seltsam Liebeslied. Ein Jüngling kommt drin vor, und dieser arme Kerl bin ich, der sich verliebt, ich muss gestehn - so gar nicht weiß, in wen.