Serenade (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-21)  CPDL #81007:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-21).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 304 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Serenade
Composers: Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan
Lyricist: Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
Description: This piece appears in “The Tonart” (1868), written by Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan. The publication did not specify an individual composer.
Exercise for the key of E-flat.

Original text and translations

English text

The winds are all hushed, and the moon is high,
    Like a queen on her silver throne!
Tranquil and dusk the woodlands lie;
Scarcely a cloud sails o’er the sky;
None are awake, save the stars and I—
    Sleepest thou still, mine own?

The song of the nightingale stirs the air,
    And the breath of the brier is blown!
Come in thy bloom beyond compare;
I’ll clasp thee close, and call thee fair;
Kiss off the dew from thy golden hair—
    Sleepest thou still, mine own?