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    This document is a musical score titled "If Women Could be Fair" composed by William Byrd in the 1580s. It is a part song scored for five voices - superius, medias, contra, tenor, and bassus. The text discusses how if women could remain fair and not become fond of men, and if a man's affection could last through long service, then it would not be surprising if women made men serve them through bonding by long service to earn their good will. However, when seeing how frail these creatures are, the composer questions if such constancy could ever be.

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    This document is a musical score titled "If Women Could be Fair" composed by William Byrd in the 1580s. It is a part song scored for five voices - superius, medias, contra, tenor, and bassus. The text discusses how if women could remain fair and not become fond of men, and if a man's affection could last through long service, then it would not be surprising if women made men serve them through bonding by long service to earn their good will. However, when seeing how frail these creatures are, the composer questions if such constancy could ever be.

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    William Byrd - If Women Could Be Fair (Partitura Completa)

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    Bastian Inostroza
    This document is a musical score titled "If Women Could be Fair" composed by William Byrd in the 1580s. It is a part song scored for five voices - superius, medias, contra, tenor, and bassus. The text discusses how if women could remain fair and not become fond of men, and if a man's affection could last through long service, then it would not be surprising if women made men serve them through bonding by long service to earn their good will. However, when seeing how frail these creatures are, the composer questions if such constancy could ever be.

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    If Women Could be Fair


    William Byrd (c.1540-1623)

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    Dow Partbooks (Christ Church, 1580s, Oxford MSS 984-988)
    
    6   
    Superius
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    Medius 
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    8

    6    
    Contra
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     º 6
    8

      
    Tenor
    º 2       
    
    º 6 
    8

          
    Bassus
     º 2    
     5
     
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    If wo men could be fair and ne ver fond, or that their beau
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    ty might con tin ue still, I would not mar vel though they made
            
          
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    Typeset by Allen Garvin (aurvondel@gmail.com) (ver. 2013-04-22) CC BY-NC 2.5


    2 If Women Could be Fair (score)
       
       
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    men bond by ser vice long. by ser vice long to pur chase their good
         
           
        
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    will. But when I see how frail how frail these crea tures
              
    
       
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    are. I laugh I laugh if men for get them selves so
              
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    8

               

    Typeset by Allen Garvin (aurvondel@gmail.com) (ver. 2013-04-22) CC BY-NC 2.5


    
    If Women Could be Fair (score) 3

        
          
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    far But when I see how frail how frail
           
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    these crea tures are I laugh I laugh if men for
               

    
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    get them selves so far for get them selves so far.

            
    
    
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    Typeset by Allen Garvin (aurvondel@gmail.com) (ver. 2013-04-22) CC BY-NC 2.5

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