Alas! What a wretched life (John Wilbye)

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  • (Posted 2011-08-29)  CPDL #24293:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-29).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: In original key of A minor. Revised files uploaded 23/06/19.

General Information

Title: Alas! What a wretched life
Composer: John Wilbye

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1598 in The First Set of Madrigals for 3-6 voices, no. 19
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Original text and translations

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Alas! What a wretched life is this!
Nay what a death! Where tyrant Love commandeth!
My flow’ring days are in their prime declining,
All my proud hope quite fall’n, and life untwining,
My joys each after other, in haste are flying,
And leave me dying for her that scorns my crying.
Oh she from hence departs, my love refraining,
For whom, all heartless alas! I die complaining.

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