Orpheus with his lute (Lord Mornington)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-02-13). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 85 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
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Title: Orpheus with his lute
Composer: Lord Mornington
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published:
Description: From Warren's nineteenth "Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees".
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Original text and translations
English text
Orpheus with his lute made trees
And the mountain tops that freeze
Bow themselves while he did sing.
To his music plants and flowers ever sprung
As sun and flowers there had made a lasting spring.
Everything that heard him play
Ev'n the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art
Killing care and grief of heart.
Fall asleep or hearing, die.