When I heard the learn'd astronomer - Winikoff, Michael

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"This piece has minimalistic influences."

⌛ Period → Contemporary ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key B minor

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range B2 – E5

¶ Language → English

Measures 59

Texture Homophonic

Parts 3

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 23317

Editor Michael Winikoff

Posted 2011-03-31

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

C#4 – E5

F#3 – B4

B2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.