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'''Published:''' Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)<br>
'''Published:''' Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)<br>



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  • CPDL #26174:  [ Icon_pdf.gif] [ Icon_snd.gif] [ Capella]
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-05-14).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Reformatting of #14906, with corrections. Set for SSAATTBB
Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-10).   Score information: A4, 14 pages, 62 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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  • CPDL #10111:  Network.png
Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 13 pages, 91 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan
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General Information

Title: Witness, ye heavens
Composer: Giles Farnaby

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicings: SSSAATBB or SSAATTBB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)

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Original text and translations

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Witness ye heav'ns, I vow to love the fairest,
To love, but how? For virtue, not for lust.
Why? Because she is the rarest.
Come life, come death, in her I only trust;
Hap death, hap life, I force not which betide me,
By her I live, from death I cannot hide me.