Benedicite! What dreamed I? (Robert Fayrfax)
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- CPDL #21701: Sibelius 5
- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2010-05-29). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 58 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Benedicite! What dreamed I?
Composer: Robert Fayrfax
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Fayrfax manuscript c.1500, edited in Musica Britanica vol. 37
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Original text and translations
English text
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.