Fair Phyllis I saw, (John Farmer)
Partitura:
Fair Phyllis , Archivo Petrucci, International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) http://imslp.org/

Midis:
fair phyllis midis (zip, 19 KB)

Versiones vídeo:
  • The King's Singers.
  • Renesansni ansambl na 9. zagrebačkom natjecanju pjevačkih zborova. Dirigira Elena Konovalova
  • Videopartitura (The Cambridge Singers)

    The song describes a person who saw a young shepherdess sitting alone feeding her sheep near a mountain. The other shepherds did not know where she was at the time. Her lover, Amyntas, goes looking for her and wanders through the hills playing hide and seek. Eventually he finds her, and when he does, they kiss.
    Letra:
    Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
    Feeding her flock near to the mountain side.
    The shepherds knew not,
    they knew not whither she was gone,
    But after her lover Amyntas hied,
    Up and down he wandered
    whilst she was missing;
    When he found her,
    O then they fell a-kissing.

    note: 'hied' is a form of the archaic verb 'hie' which means 'to hasten or hurry'


    John Farmer (c 1570–c 1605) was an English composer, mainly of madrigals. He is probably one of the less well-known composers of the English Madrigal School. He was under the patronage of Earl of Oxford and he dedicated his collection of canons and his late madrigal volume to his patron. In 1595, Farmer was appointed Organist and Master of Children at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. In 1599, he moved to London and published his only collection of four-part madrigals. One of these was "Fair Phyllis". His work "Diver and sundry Waies of Two Parts in One" displayed his mastery of two-part canon and cantus firmus.

    Among his works:

    Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone
    Fair Nymphs, I Heard One Telling
    A Pretty Little Bonny Lass
    Take Time While Time Doth Last

    John Farmer uses clever word painting in his works. For example, in 'Fair Phyllis', the opening line is 'Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone'. Farmer had only a single male soprano voice sing since she was 'all alone'. Then, to show the flock beside her, three other voices join in and it may represent the sheep. All voices used in his time were male. (From
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