What can I do, my dearest (George Kirbye)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-27). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 94 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: From the 1891 edition, edited by G. E. P. Arkwright, at the original key. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: What can I do, my dearest
Composer: George Kirbye
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SSTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1597 in The first set of English madrigalls to 4-6 voyces, no. 3
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Original text and translations
English text
What can I do, my dearest of the sweet help deprived
Of those thy fair eyes, by which I still have lived?
How can my soul endure, thus charg’d with sadness,
Exile from thy dear sight so full of gladness?