Alas Fair Face (Pilkington, Francis)

First Publication	1605 in The First Book of Songs or Airs of Four Parts
Genre Categories	Songs; Airs; For voice, lute, viol; For voices with solo instruments; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the lute; Scores featuring the viol; For 4 voices; For unaccompanied voices; English language; For voice, keyboard (arr); For voices with keyboard (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores featuring keyboard soloists (arr); For 4 voices, keyboard (arr); Scores featuring the soprano voice (arr); Scores featuring the alto voice (arr); Scores featuring the tenor voice (arr); Scores featuring the bass voice (arr)

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Work Title	Alas Fair Face
Alternative. Title	Why Doth That Smoothed Brow
Composer	Pilkington, Francis
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IFP 1
First Publication.	1605 in The First Book of Songs or Airs of Four Parts
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Renaissance
Piece Style	Renaissance
Instrumentation	voice, lute, viol (or 4 voices)

According to Grove Music, the original instrumentation was SATB voices with lute or orpharion and bass viol. The versions for 4 voices and lute were published in The Old English Edition (London, 1897-8), and the versions for voice and lute were published in 1922. The Introduction to the The Old English Edition of the collection, however, states that the 4-voice version was probably an afterthought and not intended with lute/viol, which was used for the single-voice version.