Ah, sweetheart let us hurry - Dalitz, Christoph

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"A madrigal setting in the style of Heinrich Schütz' "Symphoniae sacrae". The accompaniment can be played on arbitrary baroque instruments (violins, recorders, cornetii, ...)."

⌛ Period → Contemporary ◈ Genre → Madrigal

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SSSSS

◆ Difficulty

Advanced

↕ Range G2 – G5

¶ Language → German

Measures 34

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments SSSSS, Instrument 1, Instrument 2, Instrument 3, Instrument 4, Instrument 5

Pages 2

CPDL # 53939

Editor Christoph Dalitz

Posted 2019-04-11

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

MusicXML Part

G2 – G#4

¶Lyrics / Text

Ah, sweetheart, let us hurry / We still have time. Delaying thus, we bury / Our mutual prime. Beauty’s bright gift shall perish / As leaves grow sere; All that we have and cherish / Shall disappear. The cheek of roses fadeth / Gray grows the head; And fire the eyes evadeth / And passion’s dead. The mouth, love’s honeyed winner / Is formless, cold; The hand, like snow, gets thinner / And thou art old! So let us taste the pleasure / That youth endears, Ere we are called to measure / The flying years. Give, as thou lov’st and livest / Thy love to me, Even though, in what thou givest / My loss should be!