Orpheus with his lute (John Whittaker)
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- Editor: John Whittaker (submitted 2016-03-11). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 107 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Orpheus With His Lute
Composer: John Whittaker
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 2016
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Original text and translations
English text
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
Everything that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In such music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.