Of all the Arts beneath the Heaven (William Sterndale Bennett)

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• (Posted 2023-09-22)  CPDL #75602:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 545 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Of all the Arts beneath the Heaven
Composer: William Sterndale Bennett
Lyricist: James Hogg
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Of all the arts beneath the heaven,
That man has found, or God has given,
None draws the soul so sweet away,
As music’s melting, mystic lay;
Slight emblem of the bliss above,
It soothes the spirit all to love.