Full fathom five (Robert Johnson II)

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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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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.