Fond youth is a bubble (Thomas Tallis)

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• CPDL #19301:

Editor: Michael Gibson (submitted 2009-04-18).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 97 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

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Title: Fond youth is a bubble
Composer: Thomas Tallis

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

English text

Fond youth is a bubble blown up with breath
whose wit is weakness, whose wage is death,
whose way is wilderness, whose inn penance;
and stoop gallant age, the host of grievance.