A beauteous fair has pierced my heart - Callcott, John Wall

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"A catch for three voices. There are two editions from 2 distinct sources. The edition which appeared in Horsley's collection was "bowdlerised" to remove the lewdness of the original. It also required the initial 8 bars of each part to be sung 3 times, rather than once only as in the original version. For the obsolete meaning of the verb "roger" see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger wikipedia entry] for that word."

⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Madrigal

♯ Key C major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SSA

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate (Grade 4-5)

↕ Range C4 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 96

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments SSA

Pages 3

CPDL # 28599

Editor Jonathan Goodliffe

Posted 2013-03-22

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

C4 – A5

¶Lyrics / Text

A beauteous fair has pierced [stole] my heart, ‘t was Marianna threw the dart. Don’t you now my tale betray, but she is Roger's [Frolic’s] daughter gay. Does she in yon cottage dwell? If she does I know her well,