Hark, all ye lovely saints above
Thomas Weelkes
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
- SSATB
- Key
- G major
- Time
- 2/2
- Tempo
- quarter note = 108
- Length
- 37 bars
- Verses
- 3
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano 1 part
Range
Lowest F♯4Highest E5
Soprano 2 part
Range
Lowest C4Highest F5
Alto part
Range
Lowest G3Highest A4
Tenor part
Range
Lowest C3Highest E4
Bass part
Range
Lowest G2Highest A3
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The words
Verse 1
Hark, all ye love- ly saints a bove, Di ana hath a- greed with Love, hath a greed with Love His fiery wea pon to re move. Hark, Do you not see How they agree? Then cease, fair dies; why weep ye, why weep ye? Do you
Verse 2
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Verse 3
See, see, your mis- tress bids you cease, And wel come Love, with love's in crease, Love, with love's in crease; Dian a hath pro cured your peace. See, Cu pid hath sworn His bow for lorn To break and ere la dies mourn, la dies mourn. Cu pid
Free to sing: Thomas Weelkes died in 1623.