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:'''Edition notes:''' In original key. Transcribed from the facsimile edition, with the Superius part set for Soprano and Medius for Alto. The underlay is almost completely absent for the lower three parts in the original, so is editorial.
:'''Edition notes:''' In original key. Transcribed from the facsimile edition, with the Superius part set for Soprano and Medius for Alto. The underlay is almost completely absent for the lower three parts in the original, so is editorial.

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  • CPDL #25652:       
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-02-27).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 21 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: In original key. Transcribed from the facsimile edition, with the Superius part set for Soprano and Medius for Alto. The underlay is almost completely absent for the lower three parts in the original, so is editorial.

General Information

Title: The shepherd Strephon
Composer: John Mundy

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1594

Description: No. 20 in Songs and Psalmes. This is the 1st part of a 2-part madrigal, the 2nd part being Witness, ye heavens

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

The shepherd Strephon loved fair Dorida,
The finest shepherd is in all our field,
Whose loyal love, when she would not obey,
Ne by entreaties forced once to yield,
All on his knees unto the seemly saint,
In woeful wise thus gan he make his plaint.