Music to hear - Gray, Michael

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"This is part of an on-going SAB project, "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SAB ¶ Language → English

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 10

CPDL # 65352

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2021-08-02

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why love'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tun'd sounds By unions married do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou should'st bear: Mark how one string sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering; Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother, Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing; Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee, "Thou single wilt prove none." ''William Shakespeare (Sonnet VIII)''

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