Sister awake! (Thomas Bateson)

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• (Posted 2016-08-28)  CPDL #40936:  Part Midis and Mp3s Available

Editor: Monique Rio (submitted 2016-08-28).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 456 kB   Copyright: CC BY 4.0

Edition notes: Transposed Edition available at stcpress.org

• (Posted 2010-01-05)  CPDL #20775:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-05).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 99 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Files updated 29/01/19.

General Information

Title: Sister awake!
Composer: Thomas Bateson

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1604 in The First Set of English Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 21
    2nd published: 1900 in Ausgewählte Madrigale und mehrstimmige Gesänge , Book I, no. 1
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English text

Sister, awake, close not your eyes,
The day her light discloses,
And the bright morning doth arise,
Out of her bed of roses.
See, the clear sun, the world's bright eye,
In at our window peeping,
Lo, how he blusheth to espy
Us idle wenches sleeping.
Therefore, awake, make haste, I say,
And let us without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay,
Into the park amaying.