By Music (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #18330:      Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 86 kbytes       Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 86 KB, MIDI: 13 KB, Sibelius 4: 49 KB.

General Information

Title: By Music
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Alexander Pope - (1688 – 1744)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Baritone Solo
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1889

Description: Number 3 of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's "Ode to St. Cecelia's Day" - Baritone Solo

External websites:

• The Lied and Art Song Texts Page entry for Alexander Pope.
• Wikipedia article on lyricist Alexander Pope.
• Who was Saint Cecelia ?

Original text and translations

English text

By Music, minds an equal temper know,

Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.

If in the breast tumultuous joys arise,

Music her soft, assuasive voice applies;

Or, when the soul is press'd with cares,

Exalts her in enlivening airs.

Warriors she fires with animated sounds;

Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds;

Melancholy lifts her head,

Morpheus rouses from his bed,

Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes,

Listening Envy drops her snakes;

Intestine war no more our passions wage,

And giddy factions hear away their rage.

Lyrics: Alexander Pope - Ode to Saint Cecelia's Day - (1708)