Serenade (Charles William Pearce)

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• (Posted 2023-11-27)  CPDL #77598:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 522 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Serenade
Composer: Charles William Pearce
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1900 The Vincent Music Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

SERENADE
[From the Romancero General of 1604 Mientras duerme mi niña, &c.]

While my lady sleepeth,
The dark blue heaven is bright–
Soft the moonbeam creepeth
Round her bower all night.
Thou gentle, gentle breeze!
While my lady slumbers,
Waft lightly through the trees
Echoes of my numbers,
Her dreaming ear to please.

Should ye, breathing numbers
That for her I weave,
Should ye break her slumbers,
All my soul would grieve.
Rise on the gentle breeze,
And gain her lattice’ height
O’er yon poplar trees–
But be your echoes light
As hum of distant bees.

All the stars are glowing
In the gorgeous sky;
In the stream scarce flowing
Mimic lustres lie:
Blow, gentle, gentle breeze!
But bring no cloud to hide
Their dear resplendencies;
Nor chase from Zara’s side
Dreams bright and pure as these.

Spanish Ballads
trans. John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854)