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Now Is The Month Of Maying by Thomas Morley 4-Part - Sheet Music

By Thomas Morley
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Now Is The Month Of Maying by Thomas Morley 4-Part - Sheet Music
SATB Choir

SKU: BT.MUSJC66023

Composed by Thomas Morley. Classical. Choral Score. Composed 2015. 4 pages. Curwen #MUSJC66023. Published by Curwen (BT.MUSJC66023).

English.

Now Is The Month Of Maying is one of the most famous of the English balletts a light part song, similar to a madrigal, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and ItalianRenaissancecomposers. The fun piece was written by the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England, one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School, Thomas Morley, and published in 1595. Thesong delightsin bawdy double-entendre it is apparently about spring dancing, but this is a metaphor for sex. Its imagery and puns are characteristic of the Renaissance. Now Is The Month Of Maying is arrangedhere for SATBChoir.

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