All pleasure is of this condition (John Wilbye)

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• (Posted 2011-09-09)  CPDL #24417:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-09-09).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 62 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Underlay of #6648 followed for bars 1-21; that of Reprint: London: Musical Antiquarian Society Publications, n.d. (ca.1840). Plate No. 2 from bar 72 onward.

• (Posted 2004-02-04)  CPDL #06648:         

Editor: Ken Williams (submitted 2004-02-04).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 196 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: SSATB version.

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

General Information

Title: All Pleasure is of this Condition
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
or SSAAB Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1598 in The Second Set of Madrigals for 3-6 voices, no. 19
Description: The original is SSAAB; the two alto parts have identical ranges. quite high for tenor and quite low for alto.

Original text and translations

English text

All pleasure is of this condition,
It pricks men forward to fruition,
But if enjoy'd, then like the humming Bee,
The honey being shed, away doth flee;
But leaves a sting, that wounds the inward heart
With gnawing grief and never-ending smart.