O ruddier than the cherry (George Frideric Handel)
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- Edition notes: Edition in G Major.
General Information
Title: I rage, I melt, I burn and O ruddier than the cherry (from Acis and Galatea)
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Lyricists: John Gay, Alexander Pope and John Hughes
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Bass Solo
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1718 - Acis and Galatea, HWV 49.
Description:
External websites:
- Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song
- Wikipedia's entry for "Acis and Galatea"
- Synopsis of the opera, "Acis and Galatea"
- Libretto of the opera "Acis and galatea"
- complete scanned score of the opera, "Acis and Galatea" from Bayeische Staatsbibliothek
Original text and translations
English text
Recit:
- I rage, I rage, I melt, I burn!
- The feeble god has stabbed me to the heart.
- Thou trusty pine, prop of my god-like steps,
- I lay thee by!
- Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,
- to make a pipe for my capacious mouth;
- in soft enchanting accents
- let me breathe sweet Galatea’s beauty, and my love.
Aria:
- O ruddier than the cherry,
- O sweeter than the berry,
- O nymph more bright than moonshine night,
- Like kidlings blithe and merry!
- Ripe as the melting cluster,
- No lily has such lustre;
- Yet hard to tame as raging flame,
- And fierce as storms that bluster!
