Instruments
Ensembles
Opera
Composers
Performers

Sheet music

Original

O Dear Life. William Byrd. A cappella. Secular , Partsong. Language. English. ATTBB.

Translation

O Dear Life. William Byrd. A cappella. Secular , Partsong. Language. English. ATTBB.

Original

A setting of a poem by Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-86. the first three stanzas of the Tenth Song from Astrophel and Stella. The piece clearly originates as a consort song for high voice and four viols, though no source of this version is now known.

Translation

A setting of a poem by Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-86. the first three stanzas of the Tenth Song from Astrophel and Stella. The piece clearly originates as a consort song for high voice and four viols, though no source of this version is now known.