O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z 406 - Purcell, Henry

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⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre / Form → Art songs

♯ Key C minor

⁄ Time Signature 3/2

♬ Voicing → Solo Soprano

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – A-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 113

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments Basso continuo

Pages 10

CPDL # 45365

Editor Tony Tebby

Posted 2017-07-10

License Creative Commons Attribution

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

C4 – G5

Continuo

G2 – A-3

¶Lyrics / Text

O solitude, my sweetest choice: Places devoted to the night, Remote from tumult and from noise, How ye my restless thoughts delight! O solitude, my sweetest choice. O heav'ns, what content is mine To see these trees, which have appear'd From the nativity of time, And which all ages have rever'd, To look today as fresh and green As when their beauties first were seen. O, how agreeable a sight These hanging mountains do appear, Which th' unhappy would invite To finish all their sorrows here, When their hard fate makes them endure Such woes as only death can cure.