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==Music files== | ==Music files== | ||
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*{{PostedDate|2014-09-27}} {{CPDLno|33039}} [[Media:Blow-Self_Banished_low.pdf|{{pdf}}]] [[Media:Blow-Self_Banished_low.mxl|{{XML}}]] | |||
{{Editor|Cathal Twomey|2014-09-27}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|4|87}}{{Copy|CPDL}} | |||
:{{EdNotes|Transposed down a fourth for low voice. Minor adjustments to the continuo part to accommodate lower pitch.}} | |||
*{{ | *{{PostedDate|2014-09-27}} {{CPDLno|33037}} [[Media:Blow-Self_Banished_high.pdf|{{pdf}}]] [[Media:Blow-Self_Banished_high.mid|{{mid}}]] [[Media:Blow-Self_Banished_high.mxl|{{XML}}]] | ||
{{Editor|Cathal Twomey|2014-09-27}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|4|85}}{{Copy|CPDL}} | {{Editor|Cathal Twomey|2014-09-27}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|4|85}}{{Copy|CPDL}} | ||
: | :{{EdNotes|At original pitch for high voice and continuo. Underlay is first verse only; edition includes suggestions for how to add the other verses.}} | ||
==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
{{Title|''The Self Banished''}} | |||
{{Composer|John Blow}} | {{Composer|John Blow}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Edmund Waller}} | {{Lyricist|Edmund Waller}} | ||
{{Voicing|1| | {{Voicing|1|solo high}} | ||
{{Genre|Secular| | {{Genre|Secular|Art songs}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|Basso continuo}} | {{Instruments|Basso continuo}} | ||
{{Pub|1|1700}} | |||
{{Descr|Minuet setting of a poem by Waller, published in 'Amphion Anglicus', a collection of vocal music by John Blow, in 1700.}} | |||
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==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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{{Text|English| | {{Text|English| | ||
It is not that I love you less | {{Vs|1}} It is not that I love you less | ||
Than when before your feet I lay, | Than when before your feet I lay, | ||
But to prevent the sad increase | But to prevent the sad increase | ||
Of hopeless love, I keep away. | Of hopeless love, I keep away. | ||
{{Vs|2}} In vain (alas!) for everything | |||
In vain (alas!) for everything | |||
Which I have known belong to you, | Which I have known belong to you, | ||
Your form does to my fancy bring, | Your form does to my fancy bring, | ||
And makes my old wounds bleed anew. | And makes my old wounds bleed anew. | ||
{{Vs|3}} Who in the spring from the new sun | |||
Who in the spring from the new sun | Already has a fever got, | ||
Already has a fever got, | Too late begins those shafts to shun, | ||
Too late begins those shafts to shun, | Which Phœbus through his veins has shot.}} | ||
Which Phœbus through his veins has shot. | {{Middle}} | ||
But vow’d I have, and never must | {{Text|Simple| | ||
Your banish’d servant trouble you; | {{Vs|4}} Too late he would the pain assuage, | ||
For if I break, you may distrust | And to thick shadows does retire; | ||
About with him he bears the rage, | |||
And in his tainted blood the fire. | |||
{{Vs|5}} But vow’d I have, and never must | |||
Your banish’d servant trouble you; | |||
For if I break, you may distrust | |||
The vow I made to love you, too.}} | The vow I made to love you, too.}} | ||
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[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Baroque music]] | [[Category:Baroque music]] |
Latest revision as of 10:13, 18 April 2022
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- Editor: Cathal Twomey (submitted 2014-09-27). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 87 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth for low voice. Minor adjustments to the continuo part to accommodate lower pitch.
- Editor: Cathal Twomey (submitted 2014-09-27). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 85 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: At original pitch for high voice and continuo. Underlay is first verse only; edition includes suggestions for how to add the other verses.
General Information
Title: The Self Banished
Composer: John Blow
Lyricist: Edmund Waller
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published: 1700
Description: Minuet setting of a poem by Waller, published in 'Amphion Anglicus', a collection of vocal music by John Blow, in 1700.
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Original text and translations
English text 1 It is not that I love you less |
4 Too late he would the pain assuage, |