There is no rose of such virtue (Tim Porter)
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CPDL #14766: PDF and MIDI files
- Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2007-08-19). Score information: A4, 1 page Copyright: Personal
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Title: There is no rose of such virtue
Composer: Tim Porter
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Sacred, Carols
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: Words: Mediaeval
Extracted from Tim's folk opera "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Therein it is sung by three wassailers as they arrive at Sir Bertilak's castle. Very simple, very effective.
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Original text and translations
English text
- There is no rose of such virtue,
- As is the rose that bear Jesu.
- For in this rose contained was
- Heaven and earth in little space;
- By that rose we may well see
- That he is God in persons three,
- The angels sungen the shepherds to:
- Gloria in excelsis Deo:
- Leave we all this worldly mirth,
- And follow we this joyful birth;
- Transeamus.
- Circa 1420