Benedicite! What dreamed I? (Robert Fayrfax)

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• CPDL #21701:  Sibelius 5

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2010-05-29).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Benedicite! What dreamed I?
Composer: Robert Fayrfax

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Fayrfax manuscript c.1500, edited in Musica Britanica vol. 37

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English text

Benedicite what dremyd I this nyʒt
methought the worlde was turnyd upsodowne
the son the moone hade lost ther force and lyʒt
the see also drowned both towre and towne.
Yett more mervell how that I hard the sownde of onys voice saying
bere in thy mynd
thy lady hath forgoten to be kynd.