I Sing of a Maiden

I SING OF A MAIDEN is a new setting of the Middle English (15th century) poem found in the Sloane Manuscript, scored for SATB choir and organ. The work employs the syncopated refrain ‘sing of a maiden’ and is in a lilting 6/8 compound metre.

First performed on 18th December, 2016 at the Church of Loretto on Saint Mary’s College Campus, Notre Dame, Indiana by the South Bend Chamber Singers, Nancy Menk, conductor, David Eicher, organist.

I sing of a maiden
That is makéless.
King of all kinges
To her son she ches. 

He came all so stille
Where his mother was,
As dew in Aprille
That falleth on the grass. 

He came all so stille
To his mother’s bowr,
As dew in Aprille
That falleth on the flower. 

Mother and maiden
Was never none but she;
Well may such a lady
Goddes mother be.