Corinna - Boyce, Ethel Mary

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◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs

♯ Key E major

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SSA

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range F#1 – E6

¶ Language → English

Measures 109

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments Piano

Pages 12

CPDL # 66921

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2021-11-28

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano I

E4 – G#5

Soprano II

C4 – E5

Alto

A#3 – E5

Piano

F#1 – B4

¶Lyrics / Text

Get up, get up for shame! the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew-bespangling herb and tree. Each flower has wept, and bowed toward the east, Above an hour since; yet you are not drest, Nay! not so much as out of bed? When all the Birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns: 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in: Then sin no more, as we have done, by staying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying. Come, let us go, while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short; and our days run As fast away as doth the sun. Come, my Corinna, come; and coming, mark How each field seems a street; each street a park, Made green, and trimmed with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough, Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street, And open fields, and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May: And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; Come my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.