Holiday in Arcadia (Alexandra Thomson)

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• (Posted 2023-12-13)  CPDL #78179:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 570 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Holiday in Arcadia
Composer: Alexandra Thomson
Lyricist: James Shirley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Madrigals, Opus 12, No. 3

Original text and translations

English text

Woodmen, shepherds, come away!
This is Pan’s great holiday!
Throw off cares;
With your heaven-aspiring airs,
Help us to sing
While valleys with your echoes ring.

Nymphs that dwell within these groves,
Leave your arbours, bring your loves;
Crown your golden hair with roses
As you pass.
Foot like fairies on the grasse,
Joy crown our bowers! Philomel!
Let trees dance,
As they at Thracian lyre did once;
Mountains play,
This is the shepherds’ holiday!

“School of Compliments” (1631)