Sister awake! (Thomas Bateson)
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CPDL #20775: Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-05). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 79 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Keyboard reduction for practice only
General Information
Title: Sister awake!
Composer: Thomas Bateson
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1604
Description: From the First Set of English Madrigales: to 3, 4, 5 & 6 voices (1604). Bateson was at that time organist of Chester Cathedral.
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Original text and translations
English text
Sister, awake, close not your eyes,
The day her light discloses,
And the bright morning doth arise,
Out of her bed of roses.
See, the clear sun, the world's bright eye,
In at our window peeping,
Lo, how he blusheth to espy
Us idle wenches sleeping.
Therefore, awake, make haste, I say,
And let us without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay,
Into the park amaying.