Orpheus with his lute (John Whittaker)

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• (Posted 2016-04-11)  CPDL #38853: 

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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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.