A Little Pretty Bonny Lass

SATB a cappella
John Farmer
(ca. 1565-1605)

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midst of May, be - fore the Sun 'gan rise: a lit - tle I took

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SOURCE : The English Madrigal School, Vol. VIII,

edited by Edmund Horace Fellowes (Stainer and Bell, 1914)
FIRST PUBLISHED: First Set of Madrigals to Four Voices (1599)
Engraved by Rafael Ornes

music has been rebarred and editorial dynamic markings have been removed

Copyright © 1999 by the Choral Public Domain Library (http://www.cpdl.org)

Edition may be freely distributed, duplicated, performed, or recorded. ed. 2/10/99
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