I saw my Lady weep
from Unquiet Thoughts: English lute songs from the Golden Age by Mignarda
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I saw my lady weepe, John Dowland (c. 1563 – 1626)
“I saw my Lady weepe” is the first song in Dowland’s The Second Booke of Songs and was dedicated in print to “To the most famous Anthony Holborne.” The composition is quite advanced compared to the songs in Dowland’s First Booke, with sensitive text setting and dramatic, Italianate musical effects. Our performance places the cantus in a range that
accentuates the communicative quality of the text without sacrificing musical material.
“I saw my Lady weepe” is the first song in Dowland’s The Second Booke of Songs and was dedicated in print to “To the most famous Anthony Holborne.” The composition is quite advanced compared to the songs in Dowland’s First Booke, with sensitive text setting and dramatic, Italianate musical effects. Our performance places the cantus in a range that
accentuates the communicative quality of the text without sacrificing musical material.
lyrics
I saw my Lady weepe
and sorrow proud to bee aduanced so:
in those faire eies, where all perfecions keepe,
hir face was full of woe, but such a woe
(belieue me) as wins more hearts,
then mirth can doe, with hir intysing parts.
Sorow was there made faire,
And passion wise, teares a delightfull thing,
Silence beyond all speech a wisdome rare,
Shee made hir sighes to sing,
And all things with so sweet a sadnesse moue,
As made my heart at once both grieue and loue.
O fayrer then ought ells,
The world can shew, leaue of in time to grieue,
Inough, inough, your joyfull lookes excells,
Teares kills the heart belieue,
O striue not o bee excellent in woe,
Which onely breeds your beauties ouerhrow.
and sorrow proud to bee aduanced so:
in those faire eies, where all perfecions keepe,
hir face was full of woe, but such a woe
(belieue me) as wins more hearts,
then mirth can doe, with hir intysing parts.
Sorow was there made faire,
And passion wise, teares a delightfull thing,
Silence beyond all speech a wisdome rare,
Shee made hir sighes to sing,
And all things with so sweet a sadnesse moue,
As made my heart at once both grieue and loue.
O fayrer then ought ells,
The world can shew, leaue of in time to grieue,
Inough, inough, your joyfull lookes excells,
Teares kills the heart belieue,
O striue not o bee excellent in woe,
Which onely breeds your beauties ouerhrow.
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from Unquiet Thoughts: English lute songs from the Golden Age,
released April 10, 2021
Donna Stewart, voice
Ron Andrico, lute
Donna Stewart, voice
Ron Andrico, lute
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Mignarda Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Mignarda specializes in thoughtful programming illuminating the vibrant mingling of renaissance music & poetry. Noted for awakening modern audiences to an appreciation for historical music, their work encompasses concertizing, teaching & recording, with 17 critically-acclaimed CDs, a series of 16 music editions, scholarly articles, reviews and the internationally-popular blog, Unquiet Thoughts. ... more
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