Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers (Thomas Tomkins)
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- Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2010-01-01). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
- CPDL #11636: NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-05-07). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 59 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
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- Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-15). Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 92 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 V. M. Brennan
General Information
Title: Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers
Composer: Thomas Tomkins
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1605
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Original text and translations
English text
Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers,
Better are the country bowers.
Winter is gone, the trees are springing,
Birds on ev'ry hedge sit singing.
Hark, how they chirp, come, love, delay not,
come, come, sweet love, O, come and stay not.