Done to death by slanderous tongues (glee) (Theodore Aylward)

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• (Posted 2023-08-14)  CPDL #74857: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 282 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

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Title: Done to death by slanderous tongues (glee)
Composer: Theodore Aylward
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1790
Description: Aylward also published a two part setting of this text for use as a canzonet.

Original text and translations

English text

Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies.
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died in shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.