Since first I saw your face
Thomas Ford
Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.
- Voicing
- SATB
- Key
- D major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- quarter note = 100
- Length
- 39 bars
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano part
Range
Lowest D4Highest D5
Alto part
Range
Lowest B3Highest G4
Tenor part
Range
Lowest E3Highest D4
Bass part
Range
Lowest G2Highest A3
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The words
Verse 1
Since first I saw your face I resolv'd to honour and renown ye; If now I be disdained, I wish my heart had never known ye. What I that lov'd and you that liked, shall we begin to wrangle? No, no, no, my heart is fast, and cannot disentangle. disentangle. The sun, whose beams most glorious are rejecteth no behol- der, And your sweet beauty past com- pare made my poor eyes the bol- der; Where beauty moves and wit delights, and signs of kindness bind me, There, O there, where'er I go, I leave my heart behind me. There, O there, where'er I go, I leave my heart behind me.
Free to sing: Thomas Ford died in 1648.