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CPDL #24373:
- Editor: Jon Corelis (submitted 2011-09-06). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 32 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Full Fathom Five
Composer: Jon Corelis
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: T
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2011
Description: Musical setting for the famous song from The Tempest. I hoped the atonality of the melody would reflect the strange atmosphere of the play. Unaccompanied, though in performance an optional simple accompaniment could be added. In this sound file synth English Horn used to simulate voice. Text below.
External websites: http://sites.google.com/site/jcorelis
Original text and translations
English text
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
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