Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring - Dowland, John

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Madrigals

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATTB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range D2 – E5

¶ Language → English

Measures 15

Texture Homophonic

Parts 5

Instruments Lute (optional)

Pages 2

CPDL # 33517

Editor Allen Garvin

Posted 2014-11-29

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial

♫Pitch Ranges

Canto

D4 – E5

Alto

C4 – B4

Quinto

D3 – E4

Tenore

C3 – D4

Basso

D2 – G3

¶Lyrics / Text

:Cleare or cloudie sweet as April showring, :Smoth or frowning so is hir face to mee, :Pleasd or smiling like milde May all flowring, :When skies blew silke and medowes carpets bee, :Hir speeches notes of that night bird that singeth, :Who thought all sweet yer Jarring notes outringeth. :Hir grace like June, when earth and trees bee trimde, :In best attire of compleat beauties height, :Hir love againe like sommers daies bee dimde, :With little cloudes of doubtfull constant faith, :Hir trust hir doubt, like raine and head in Skies, :Gently thundring, she lightning to my eies. :Sweet sommer spring that breatheth life and growing, :In weedes as into hearbs and flowers, :And sees of service divers sorts in sowing, :Some haply seeming and some being yours, :Raine on your hearbs and flowers that truely serve, :And let your weeds lack dew and duely starve.