O happy fair (William Shield)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-09-12). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 163 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-09-12). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 139 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: O happy fair
Composer: William Shield
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 3vv Voicings: SSB or TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1800 The Flowers of Harmony
2nd published: 1851 Novello's Glee Hive no.18
Description: Setting from A Midsummer Night's Dream, composed for men's voices
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Original text and translations
English text
O happy fair,
Your eyes are load-stars/lodestars* and your tongue sweet air:
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
- Alternative spellings for the same thing,