Orpheus with his lute (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2021-09-28). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 52 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Orpheus With His Lute
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unknown
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1925
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Original text and translations
English text
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
Every thing that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
_ from Henry VIII