Ready to print
You have already purchased this music, but not yet printed it.
This page is just a preview and does not allow printing. To print your purchase, go to the My purchases page in your account and click the relevant print icon.
Garland Pavan à 6 (after Pearsall) for viol consort [2014]
"Lay a Garland"
Already purchased!
You have already purchased this score. To download and print the PDF file of this score, click the 'Print' button above the score. The purchases page in your account also shows your items available to print.
This score is free!
Buy this score and parts
Garland Pavan à 6 (after Pearsall) for viol consort [2014]
$10.50
$1.50
from $1.50
Preview individual parts:
Instant download
You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.Originally Robert Pearsall’s well-known part-song is in 8 parts. I thought it would go well on viols because of the melancholic mood, and all the telling suspensions reminiscent of Lotti’s "Crucifixus". Since viol players rarely get together in 8 parts because of the seriously limited repertory, for my sins I compressed it into 6 parts and took it up a tone into a better viol key, hopefully without too much damage. I thought it would go best as a sort of Pavan. So I’ve introduced a couple of repeats by inserting an extra bar at the cadence point. The pairs of instruments are switched for the repeats, and I’ve added a little coda. and then go crashing back regardless of where its modulated to, or rather melting back into the distant key that the section started in.
The original words from "The Maid’s Tragedy" Act II Scene I written in 1608-11 were by Beaumont and Fletcher. "Lay a garland on my hearse of the[I] dismal yew. Maidens, willow branches wear, say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth.[I]. Upon my buried body lie lightly, gentle earth."
Pearsall changed it slightly to - "Lay a garland on her hearse of dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches wear; Say, say she died true, Her love was false, but she was firm. Upon her buried body lie lightly, thou gentle earth."
Robert Pearsall wrote a contrafactum to the biblical text "Tu es Petrus".