To: prs@prs.com
From: weimermt@libby.org (Martin Weimer)
Subject: Morley Madrigal
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 12:36:57 LOCAL

It was Thomas Morley (1557-1602) himself who gave the following 
advice about composing madrigals:
        "If therefore you will compose in this kind you must possess
yourself with an amorous humor...so that you must in your musick be 
wavering like the wind, sometimes wanton, sometime drooping, sometime
grave and staide, otherwise effeminat, you may maintaine points and
revert them, use triplaes and shew the verie uttermost of your 
variete, and the more variete you shew the better shal you please."

        I think you'll agree with this after hearing this 401 year 
old piece which is as timeless as any I've heard. I arranged the 
durations and crescendos based upon the original text which follows:

Clorinda False, Adieu!

Clorinda false, adieu! thy love torments me. 
Let Thyrsis, have thy heart, since he contents thee.
Oh grief and bitter anguish, 
for thee unkind I languish:
Fain I alas! would hide it.
Oh! but who can abide it? I cannot I abide it.
Adieu, adieu, adieu, then,
farewell, leave me, death now desiring.
Thou hast, lo! thy requiring.
So spake Phillistus, on his hook relying,
and sweetly, sweetly, fell a dying.

Marty Weimer  weimermt@libby.org  6/8/95