Lay a garland
Robert Lucas Pearsall · words Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
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
- SSAATTBB
- Key
- E♭ major
- Time
- 2/2
- Tempo
- quarter note = 80
- Length
- 58 bars
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano 1 part
Range
Lowest E♭4Highest G5
Soprano 2 part
Range
Lowest C4Highest F5
Alto 1 part
Range
Lowest B♭3Highest B♭4
Alto 2 part
Range
Lowest A♭3Highest B♭4
Tenor 1 part
Range
Lowest E♭3Highest G4
Tenor 2 part
Range
Lowest C3Highest E♭4
Bass 1 part
Range
Lowest B♭2Highest C4
Bass 2 part
Range
Lowest G2Highest B♭3
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The words
Verse 1
Lay a garland Of dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches wear; Maidens, willow branches wear; Say she died true, Her love was false, Her love was false, but she was firm. Upon her buried body lie, lie lightly, thou gentle, gentle earth, thou gentle earth.
Free to sing: Robert Lucas Pearsall died in 1856, Francis Beaumont died in 1616 and John Fletcher died in 1625.