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CPDL #25310: Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-09). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 20 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Full fathom five
Composer: Robert Johnson II
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1611
Description: Possibly the version that was used in the original production of The Tempest.
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Original text and translations
English text
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! now I hear them, ding dong bell.