If the deep sighs - Ward, John

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Madrigals

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/2

♬ Voicing → SSATTB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 148

Texture Homophonic

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 25

CPDL # 58493

Editor Mats Lillhannus

Posted 2020-05-08

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Cantus 

D4 – G5

Quintus 

D4 – G5

Altus

G3 – D5

Sextus

C3 – B-4

Tenore

C3 – A4

Bassus

G2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

If the deep sighs of an afflicted breast, O'erwhelm'd with sorrow, or th' erected of a poor wretch with miseries oppres'd, for whose complaints tears never could suffice Have not the power your deities to move, Who shall e'er look for succour from above? From whom too long I tarried for relief Now ask but death, that only ends my grief. There's not a grove that wonders not my woe, Nor not a river weeps not at my tale, I hear the Echoes (wand'ring to and fro) Resound my grief through ev'ry hill and dale. The Birds and beast yet in their simple kind lament for me, no pity else, I find, And tears I find do bring no other good But as new showers, increase the rising flood.