Ah, sweetheart let us hurry (Christoph Dalitz)

From ChoralWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Music files

L E G E N D Disclaimer How to download
ICON SOURCE
Icon_pdf.gif Pdf
MusicXML.png MusicXML
File details.gif File details
Question.gif Help
  • (Posted 2019-04-11)  CPDL #53939:     
Editor: Christoph Dalitz (submitted 2019-04-11).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 41 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Edition for SS or TT.
  • (Posted 2019-04-11)  CPDL #53938:     
Editor: Christoph Dalitz (submitted 2019-04-11).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 41 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
Edition notes: Edition for AA or BB.

General Information

Title: Ah, sweetheart let us hurry
Composer: Christoph Dalitz
Lyricist: Bayard Taylor (translation of a German poem by Martin Opitz)

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicings: SS, TT, AA and BB
Genre: SacredMadrigal

Language: German
Instruments: 2 violins, bc

First published: 2019
Description: A madrigal setting in the style of Heinrich Schütz' "Symphoniae sacrae". The accompaniment can be played on arbitrary baroque instruments (violins, recorders, cornetii, ...).

External websites:

Original text and translations

English.png English text

Ah, sweetheart, let us hurry / We still have time.
Delaying thus, we bury / Our mutual prime.

Beauty’s bright gift shall perish / As leaves grow sere;
All that we have and cherish / Shall disappear.

The cheek of roses fadeth / Gray grows the head;
And fire the eyes evadeth / And passion’s dead.

The mouth, love’s honeyed winner / Is formless, cold;
The hand, like snow, gets thinner / And thou art old!

So let us taste the pleasure / That youth endears,
Ere we are called to measure / The flying years.

Give, as thou lov’st and livest / Thy love to me,
Even though, in what thou givest / My loss should be!