To Music (George Dyson)
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- Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2001-02-01). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 265 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: To Music
Composer: George Dyson
Lyricist: Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1920
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
Charm me asleep, and melt me so
With thy delicious numbers,
That, being ravish’d, hence I go
Away in easy slumbers.
Ease my sick head,
And make my bed,
Thou power that canst sever
From me this ill,
And quickly still,
Though thou not kill
My fever.