Now winter nights enlarge - Campion, Thomas

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⌛ Period → Renaissance

◈ Genre / Form Madrigals

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range F#2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 23

Texture mixed texture

Parts 2

Instruments SB

Pages 1

CPDL # 26023

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2012-04-25

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

G4 – G5

Bass

F#2 – A3

¶Lyrics / Text

Now winter nights enlarge The number of their hours, And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers, Let now the chimneys blaze, And cups o'erflow with wine: Let well-tun'd words amaze With harmony divine. Now yellow waxen lights Shall wait on honey love, While youthful revels, masques and courtly sights Sleep's leaden spells remove. This time doth well dispense With lovers' long discourse; Much speech hath some defence, Though beauty no remorse. All do not all things well: Some measures comely tread; Some knotted riddles tell; Some poems smoothly read. The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

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