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Now Is the Month of Maying: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Now Is the Month of Maying, sung by the soprano, in G, from D4 to D5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries Morley's dancing tune, often up on its top D, on "playing", "his bonny lass" and the fa las, and down to the D an octave below in the fa las.

Range
D4 to D5
Key
G
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About Now Is the Month of Maying

Words: anonymous, after Orazio Vecchi (1595)

Tune: Thomas Morley (1595)

Now Is the Month of Maying is a ballett by Thomas Morley, printed in London in 1595, with words after the Italian of Orazio Vecchi. In his music textbook of 1597, Morley said balletts, also called fa las, were songs for dancing as well as singing. His 1595 book of them came out in two editions, one in English and one with Italian words. Our arrangement is read from E. H. Fellowes's 1913 edition, its accidentals checked against the 1595 part-books, with Morley's two tenor parts joined into one. This is verse 1 and its "fa la" refrains, each half sung twice, for 4 singers, light and dancing, every voice with a tune of its own.

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