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==Music files== | ==Music files== | ||
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*{{PostedDate|2015-09-14}} {{CPDLno|36800}} [http://www.notamos.co.uk/146330.shtml {{ | *{{PostedDate|2015-09-14}} {{CPDLno|36800}} [http://www.notamos.co.uk/146330.shtml {{net}}] | ||
{{Editor|Christopher Shaw|2015-09-14}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|28}}{{Copy|Personal}} | {{Editor|Christopher Shaw|2015-09-14}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|28}}{{Copy|Personal}} | ||
: | :{{EdNotes|Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.}} | ||
==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
{{Title|''Why steal the tears adown thy cheek?''}} | |||
{{Composer|Anonymous}} | {{Composer|Anonymous}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Anonymous}} | {{Lyricist|Anonymous}} | ||
{{Voicing|3|TTB}} | {{Voicing|3|TTB}} | ||
{{Genre|Secular|Glees}} | {{Genre|Secular|Glees}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
{{Pub|1|1785}} | |||
{{Descr|From a collection of six glees "Composed by an amateur and most respectfully inscribed to Miss Fisher", London, c.1785.}} | |||
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==Original text and translations== | |||
{{Text|English| | |||
Why steal the tears adown thy cheek. | |||
Where love and pleasure ought to reign? | |||
The cruel cause, ah quickly speak, | |||
And make me partner of thy pain. | |||
That meaning face and breast of snow, | |||
That heart to ev'ry virtue prone, | |||
Were made to soothe another's woe, | |||
But ne'er feel sorrows of their own.}} | |||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Classical music]] | [[Category:Classical music]] | ||
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- (Posted 2015-09-14) CPDL #36800:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2015-09-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 28 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Why steal the tears adown thy cheek?
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1785
Description: From a collection of six glees "Composed by an amateur and most respectfully inscribed to Miss Fisher", London, c.1785.
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Original text and translations
English text
Why steal the tears adown thy cheek.
Where love and pleasure ought to reign?
The cruel cause, ah quickly speak,
And make me partner of thy pain.
That meaning face and breast of snow,
That heart to ev'ry virtue prone,
Were made to soothe another's woe,
But ne'er feel sorrows of their own.