How I love the festive boy, Op.8, no.2 (Alexander Campbell Mackenzie): Difference between revisions
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-01-21). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 140 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: How I love the festive boy
Composer: Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 12, no. 352
Description: Translation by Thomas Moore of Ode XXXIX from Odes of Anacreon.
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Original text and translations
English text
How I love the festive boy,
Tripping through the dance of joy.
How I love the mellow sage,
Smiling through the veil of age.
And whene'er this man of years
In the dance of joy appears,
Age is on his temples hung,
But his heart, his heart is young.
- Translation by Thomas Moore