Benedicite! What dreamed I? (Robert Fayrfax)

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  • (Posted 2020-04-08)  CPDL #57892:   
Editor: Humphrey Thompson (submitted 2020-04-08).   Score information: A3, 3 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Edition prepared for the Fayrfax 2021 Quincentenary, generously supported by the Mercers' Company.
  • CPDL #21701:        (Sibelius 5)
Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2010-05-29).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

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Title: Benedicite! What dreamed I?
Composer: Robert Fayrfax

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATB

Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1500 in Fayrfax Manuscript, no. 12
First published: 1972 in Musica Britanica vol. 37

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Original text and translations

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Benedicite what dremyd I this nyʒt
methought the worlde was turnyd upsodowne
the son the moone hade lost ther force and lyʒt
the see also drowned both towre and towne.
Yett more mervell how that I hard the sownde of onys voice saying
bere in thy mynd
thy lady hath forgoten to be kynd.