What is our life? - Gibbons, Orlando

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"This five-part madrigal is Orlando Gibbons's setting of Sir Walter Raleigh's poem of the same title, a somber lament written while awaiting execution in the Tower of London. The resulting posthumous collaboration, a concise musical statement of great intensity and concentration, is one of the masterpieces of the English madrigal repertoire.<br>"

⌛ Epoche → Renaissance ◈ Genre / Form → Madrigale

♯ Tonart D minor

⁄ Taktart 2/2

◆ Difficulty

Virtuos (Mittelstufe I)

↕ Tonumfang F – f''

¶ Sprache → Englisch

Takte 120

Textur mixed texture

Stimmen 5

Instrumente A cappella

Seiten 7

CPDL Nr. 84777

Bearbeiter Adrian Wall

Veröffentlicht 2025-05-04

Lizenz Personal

♫Tonumfänge

Soprano

d' – f''

Alto

a – d''

Tenor 1

c – a'

Bass

F – d'

Schlagwörter

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¶Liedtext

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tiring houses be, where we are dress'd for this short comedy. Heav'n the judicious sharp spectator is, that sits and marks still who doth act amiss. Our graves, that hide us from the searching sun are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we, playing to our latest rest; Only we die in earnest, that's no jest.

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