When I thy singing next shall hear (John Albert Sowerbutts)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-11). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 530 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: When I thy singing next shall hear
Composer: John Albert Sowerbutts
Lyricist: Robert Herrick
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1918 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
UPON JULIA’S VOICE
When I thy singing next shall hear,
I’ll wish I might turn all to ear,
To drink-in notes and numbers, such
As blessed souls can’t hear too much:
Then melted down, there let me lie
Entranced, and lost confusedly;
And by thy music strucken mute
Die, and be turn’d into a Lute.
When I thy singing next shall heare,
Ile wish I might turne all to eare,
To drink in Notes, and Numbers; such
As blessed soules cann’t heare too much:
Then melted down, there let me lye
Entranc’d, and lost confusedly;
And by thy Musique strucken mute,
Die and be turn’d into a Lute.
Hesperides (1648)