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==Music files==
==Music files==
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:{{EdNotes|Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Original versions (Mens' and mixed voices, slightly different)}}


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{{Editor|Alan Pickering|2015-02-20}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|50}}{{Copy|CPDL}}
{{Editor|Alan Pickering|2015-02-20}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|50}}{{Copy|CPDL}}
:'''Edition notes:'''
:{{EdNotes| Version for solo voice and keyboard}}


==General Information==
==General Information==
'''Title:''' ''Sigh no more, ladies''<br>
{{Title|''Sigh no more, ladies''}}
{{Composer|Richard John Samuel Stevens}}
{{Composer|Richard John Samuel Stevens}}
{{Lyricist|William Shakespeare}}
{{Lyricist|William Shakespeare}}


{{Voicing|1|S}}<br>
{{Voicing|5|SSATB,ATTTB,S}}
{{Genre|Secular|Odes}}
{{Genre|Secular|Glees|Odes}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Instruments|Keyboard}}
{{Instruments|Keyboard}}
'''Description:''' From Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene III
{{Pub|1|1788}}
{{Descr|Stevens originally composed this glee for men's voices. At the request of one Miss Thurlows, he subsequently adapted it for a mixed choir, by transposing it up a fifth and revising some of the dispositions. When the latter version was published it was reviewed  in The Analytical Review in the following terms: "The harmony of this composition is so good as to exhibit the perfect theorist; also in its melody it displays a tolerable imagination; and is calculated to please both the learned and unlearned hearer". The solo version is of unknown provenance but is probably a posthumous redraft. }}
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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
{{Text|English|
{{LinkText|Sigh no more, ladies}}
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
And be you blithe and bonny;
Converting all your sounds of woe,
Converting all your sounds of woe;
To hey, nonny, nonny.
Hey, nonny, nonny,
Hey, nonny, nonny,
Hey, nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no more,
Of dumps so dull and heavy,
Of dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leafy,
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
And be you blithe and bonny;
Converting all your sounds of woe,
Converting all your sounds of woe;
To hey, nonny, nonny.
Hey, nonny, nonny,
Hey, nonny, nonny,
Hey, nonny, nonny.}}


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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-10-04).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 340 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Original versions (Mens' and mixed voices, slightly different)
  • (Posted 2015-02-20)  CPDL #34622:        (Sibelius 7)
Editor: Alan Pickering (submitted 2015-02-20).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 50 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Version for solo voice and keyboard

General Information

Title: Sigh no more, ladies
Composer: Richard John Samuel Stevens
Lyricist: William Shakespeare

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SSATB, ATTTB or S
Genre: SecularGleeOde

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1788
Description: Stevens originally composed this glee for men's voices. At the request of one Miss Thurlows, he subsequently adapted it for a mixed choir, by transposing it up a fifth and revising some of the dispositions. When the latter version was published it was reviewed in The Analytical Review in the following terms: "The harmony of this composition is so good as to exhibit the perfect theorist; also in its melody it displays a tolerable imagination; and is calculated to please both the learned and unlearned hearer". The solo version is of unknown provenance but is probably a posthumous redraft.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Sigh no more, ladies.