Three Elizabethan Partsongs - Vaughan Williams, Ralph

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⌛ Period → 20th Century

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate (Grade 4-5)

↕ Range E2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 112

Texture Polyphonic

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 65939

Editor Douglas Walczak

Posted 2021-09-29

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

D4 – G5

ALTO

G#3 – B4

TENOR

E3 – F4

BASS

E2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

I. Sweet Day 1 Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die. 2 Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye: Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. 3 Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie; My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. 4 Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. II. The Willow Song The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, Sing all a green willow: Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow: The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans; Sing willow, willow, willow; Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones; Sing willow, willow, willow; Sing all a green willow must be my garland. - from Othello III. O Mistress Mine O Mistress mine where are you roaming? O stay and hear, your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further pretty sweeting. Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love, 'tis not hereafter, Present mirth, hath present laughter: What's to come, is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me sweet and twenty: Youth's a stuff will not endure. -from Twelfth Night

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