Music and dances (Howard Kingsbury)

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•  Posted on 2024-04-25(Posted 2024-04-25)  CPDL #80392:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 358 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Music and dances
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: James Gates Percival
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Music and dances,
Smiles and bright glances,
Love’s happy chances,
   All are at play.
Youths with gay sashes,
Girls with calashes,
Quick as light flashes,
   Foot it away.

Viols are tinkling,
Light feet are twinkling,
Snowy veils crinkling,
   Round as they go.
Soft voices prattle,
Castanets rattle,
Love’s mimic battle
    Mingles them so.

Now the dance closes,—
Baskets of roses,
Woven in posies,
    Gayly they twine.
Goblets are clashing,
Amber lights flashing,
Young lovers dashing
    Beauty in wine.

All now is over,—
White mantles hover,
Each with a lover,
    Back to the town.
None of them misses
Sweetest of blisses,
Dewy wet kisses,—
    That is love’s crown.