How oft when thou, my Music, music play'st - Gray, Michael

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"Part of an on-going collection, "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♯ Key C minor

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range C1 – A-6

¶ Language → English

Measures 134

Texture mixed texture

Parts 7

Instruments SAB, 4 instruments

Pages 9

CPDL # 41597

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2016-10-28

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

♫Pitch Ranges

Instrument 1

C4 – F#5

Instrument 2

G3 – C5

Soprano

D3 – F6

Alto

A3 – A-6

Baritone

A-1 – F4

Instrument 6

C1 – G4

¶Lyrics / Text

How oft when thou, my Music, music play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap, To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap, At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand! To be so tickled, they would change their state And situation with those dancing chips, O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait, Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips. Since saucy jacks so happy are in this, Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss. ''William Shakespeare (Sonnet CXXVIII)''

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