Such pleasant boughs (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)

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• (Posted 2021-02-13)  CPDL #62881:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-02-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third. Source: Madrigals to five voices, selected out of the best approved Italian authors by Thomas Morley, pub. Thomas East, 1598.

General Information

Title: Such pleasant boughs
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
Lyricist:

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque, no. 2
    2nd published: 1598 in Madrigals to five voices (ed. Thomas Morley) – English translation, no. 1
Description: A translation of Ferrabosco's madrigal 'Non vide 'l mondo'.

Original text and translations

English text

Such pleasant boughs the world yet never viewed
nor wind did ever move such nowers verdant
as at the first unto my sight were showed,
for that I seeing those her two lamps ardent
for my refuge no better shade did espy
of any green plant that grew under the sky.