Queen and Huntress (Jeffrey Quick)

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• (Posted 2021-08-19)  CPDL #65532:       

Editor: Jeffrey Quick (submitted 2021-08-19).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 166 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Scanned score dated 11/26/1994.

General Information

Title: Queen and Huntress
Composer: Jeffrey Quick
Lyricist: Ben Jonson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1994
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair,
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus entreats thy light,
Goddess excellently bright.

Earth, let not thy envious shade
Dare itself to interpose;
Cynthia's shining orb was made
Heaven to clear when day did close:
Bless us then with wishéd sight,
Goddess excellently bright.

Lay thy bow of pearl apart,
and thy crystal-shining quiver;
Give unto the flying hart
Space to breathe, how short soever;
Thou that mak'st a day of night,
Goddess excellently bright.

--Ben Jonson, 1600