Why is my verse so barren? - Gray, Michael

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"Part of an on-going collection for SAB, piano called "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key G major

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range D2 – C6

¶ Language → English

Measures 91

Texture Homophonic

Parts 5

Instruments Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 41675

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2016-11-04

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

B3 – E5

Alto

A3 – C5

Baritone

C3 – E4

Piano

D2 – B4

¶Lyrics / Text

Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from variation or quick change? Why with the time do I not glance aside To new-found methods and to compounds strange? Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, That every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth, and where they did proceed? Oh, know, sweet love, I always write of you, And you and love are still my argument. So all my best is dressing old words new, Spending again what is already spent: For as the sun is daily new and old, So is my love still telling what is told. ''William Shakespeare (Sonnet LXXVI)''