By Music (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #18330: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-11-14). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 86 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 86 KB, MIDI: 13 KB, Sibelius 4: 49 KB.
General Information
Title: By Music
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Alexander Pope - (1688 – 1744)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Baritone
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1889
Description: Number 3 of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's "Ode to St. Cecelia's Day" - Baritone Solo
External websites:
- Wikipedia article on lyricist Alexander Pope.
Original text and translations
English text
- By Music, minds an equal temper know,
- Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
- If in the breast tumultuous joys arise,
- Music her soft, assuasive voice applies;
- Or, when the soul is press'd with cares,
- Exalts her in enlivening airs.
- Warriors she fires with animated sounds;
- Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds;
- Melancholy lifts her head,
- Morpheus rouses from his bed,
- Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes,
- Listening Envy drops her snakes;
- Intestine war no more our passions wage,
- And giddy factions hear away their rage.
- Lyrics: Alexander Pope - Ode to Saint Cecelia's Day - (1708)