Let us, my Lesbia, live and love (John Stafford Smith)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-10-04). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 140 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.
- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2011-08-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 41 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Let us, my Lesbia, live and love
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1781 in Warren's eighteenth collection of glees, etc
Description: 3 part glee for ATB to an anonymous poem translated from Catullus.
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Original text and translations
English text Let us, my Lesbia live and love, |
Spanish text Translation in verse by Cristóbal de Castillejo (1495-1550) |
Latin text The original poem from which the above translation derives. |