So far from my delight (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)

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• (Posted 2017-03-08)  CPDL #43468:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-03-08).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #31875, with minor corrections to the underlay. Alto parts in treble clef.

• (Posted 2014-05-07)  CPDL #31875:         

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2014-05-07).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 105 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: So far from my delight
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1588 in Musica Transalpina, Edition 1, no. 48
Description: Part one of two, the second part being She only doth not feel it.

Original text and translations

English text

So far from my delight what cares torment me,
Fields do record it and valleys and woods and mountains,
And running rivers and reposed fountains,
Where I cry out, and to the heav'ns lament me
None other sounds but tunes of my complaining.

Nymph of the groves or pleasant bird once heareth
Still recount I my grief and her disdaining
To ev'ry plant that groweth or blossom beareth.