Constant Penelope - Byrd, William

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → ATTBB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – E-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 40

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 5

CPDL # 14875

Editor Brian Russell

Posted 2007-09-09

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Porte 1

F3 – B-4

Porte 3

D3 – A4

Porte 4

C3 – C4

Porte 5

F2 – G3

¶Lyrics / Text

Constant ''Penelope'', sends to thee carelesse ''Ulisses'', write not againe, but come sweet mate thy selfe to revive mee. ''Troy'' wee doe much envie, wee desolate lost Ladies of ''Greece'': Not ''Priamus'', nor yet all ''Troy'' can us recompence make. Oh, that hee had when hee first tooke shipping to Lacedemon, that adulter I meane, had beene o’rewhelmed with waters: Then had I not lien now all alone, thus quivering for cold, nor used this complaint, nor have thought the day to bee so long. ::Ovid, Heroides I, tr. ?Thomas Watson (c.1557-1592)