Five times by the taper's light - Storace, Stephen

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"From Storace's afterpiece, "The Iron Chest". He died during the piece's composition, and some (uncertain proportion) was perhaps completed by Michael Kelly. This glee was performed at Storace's posthumous benefit concert, and is therefore unlikely to be of spurious attribution. For the first 60 years of its life, it was performed SSST or SSAT"

⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Glees

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 3/2

♬ Voicing → SSTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G1 – E6

¶ Language → English

Measures 57

Texture Polyphonic

Parts 6

Instruments Keyboard

Pages 5

CPDL # 64023

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2021-04-11

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Treble I

G4 – G5

Treble II

D4 – D5

Tenor

E3 – G4

Bass

A2 – D4

Acc.

G1 – E5

¶Lyrics / Text

Five times by the taper's light The hourglass I have turned tonight! Where's Father? He's gone out to roam; If he have luck, He'll bring a buck Upon his lusty shoulders home. Home! Home! he comes not home. Hark! from the woodland vale below, The distant clock sounds dull, and slow. Bome! Bome!