Slow, slow, fresh fount (Jon Corelis)
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- Editor: Jon Corelis (submitted 2011-09-08). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 48 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Composer: Jon Corelis
Lyricist: Ben Jonson
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: S
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Wind ensemble
Published: 2011
Description: My musical setting for a well known lyric by Ben Jonson. The singer is supposed to be Echo mourning Narcissus. Written for soprano, with the vocal in this sound file represented by a synth la-la female voice. This particular arrangement features recorders, but other arrangements (maybe piano, harpischord, or organ) could be imagined.
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Original text and translations
English text
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
Yet slower, yet ; O faintly gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.
Droop herbs and flowers;
Fall grief in showers;
Our beauties are not ours;
O, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature's pride is, now, a withered daffodil.