Sometime my hope (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-03-09). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Reformatting of #31886, with corrections.
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2014-05-07). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 78 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.
General Information
Title: Sometime my hope
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1587 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque, no. 12
2nd published: 1588 in Musica Transalpina (ed. Nicholas Yonge) – in English translation, Edition 1, no. 37
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Original text and translations
English text
Sometime my hope full weakly went on by line and leisure,
but now it grows to do my heart some pleasure.
Yet that my hope decay not by overmuch contenting,
Love will not give my joys their full augmenting,
but still with some disaster,
allays my bliss that hope may be the faster.