Now is the month of maying
Thomas Morley
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
- SATTB
- Key
- G major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- quarter note = 180
- Length
- 57 bars
The parts
The opening, 8 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano part
Range
Lowest D4Highest D5
Alto part
Range
Lowest D4Highest A4
Tenor 1 part
Range
Lowest D3Highest F4
Tenor 2 part
Range
Lowest C3Highest E4
Bass part
Range
Lowest G2Highest A3
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The words
Verse 1
Now is the month of maying, When merry lads are playing, Fa la la la la la la, fa la la, fa la la la la la la. Now la. Each with his bonny lass Upon the greeny grass. Fa la la la la, fa la la la la, fa la la la la la la. Each la. The Spring, clad all in gladness, doth laugh at winter's sadness, Fa la la la la la la, fa la la, fa la la la la la la. The la. And to the bagpipe's sound The nymphs tread out the ground. Fa la la la la, fa la la la la, fa la la la la la la. And la. Fie then! Why sit we musing, Youth's sweet delight refusing, Fa la la la la la la, fa la la, fa la la la la la la. Fie la. Say, dainty nymphs, and speak. Shall we play barley break? Fa la la la la, fa la la la la, fa la la la la la la. Say, la.
Free to sing: Thomas Morley died in 1602.