Music, when soft voices die (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #16315: Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-03-11).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 62 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MIDI: 11 KB, Sib4: 48 KB.

• CPDL #00767: Finale 1998

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 2000-03-20).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 66 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Music, When Soft Voices Die
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1897

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Original text and translations

English text

Music, when soft voices die,

Vibrates in the memory.

Odours, when sweet violets sicken,

Life within the sense they quicken,

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,

are heaped, heaped for the beloved's bed;

and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone.

Love itself shall slumber on.