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Edward Elgar

Good Morrow

"Good Morrowe" is a poem written by George Gascoigne in 1557 and set to music by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1929. Elgar titled it in modern English "Good Morrow" with the subtitle "A

Lyrics#

Though Elgar changed Gascoigne’s verse to modern English, he requested that the original sixteenth-century text be shown on the last page of the vocal score and be printed like that on programmes:

Recordings#

  • Choral Music of Edward Elgar The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, director Richard Marlow
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Edward Elgar