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Now is the month of maying

madrigal for double choir SATBSATB

Duration 2' 40"

Words by Thomas Morley

commissioned by Ickenham Music Festival, 1996

Performers of this work include

St Giles's Church Choir, Ickenham
Ealing Youth Choir
Ceriddion Vocal Ensemble, New York City
University of Warwick Chamber Choir
Queldryk Chamber Choir

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Now is the month of maying,
When merry lads are playing,
Fa la la (etc)
Each with his bonny lass
Upon the greeny grass.
Fa la la (etc)

The Spring, clad all in gladness,
Doth laugh at Winter's sadness,
And to the bagpipe's sound
The nymphs tread out their ground.

Fie then! why sit we musing,
Youth's sweet delight refusing?
Say, dainty nymphs, and speak,
Shall we play barley-break?

Categories choral - mixed voices unaccompanied