Orpheus with his lute (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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  • (Posted 2021-09-28)  CPDL #65914:     
Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2021-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Orpheus With His Lute
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unknown
Genre: Secular, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1925
Description: 

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Original text and translations

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Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
Every thing that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
        _ from Henry VIII

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