In pride of May (Giuseppe Ferrata)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-28). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 497 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: In pride of May
Composer: Giuseppe Ferrata
Lyricist: Thomas Weelkes
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1921 Theodore Presser Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
In pride of May
The fields are gay,
The birds do sweetly sing.
So nature would
That all things should
With joy begin the Spring.
Then Lady dear,
Do you appear
In beauty like the Spring?
I well dare say
The birds that day
More cheerfully will sing.
Fa, la, la.