Soft notes and gently raised, Z 510 (Henry Purcell)
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Full score
- CPDL #7160: FInale-2000.
- Editor: Anders Stenberg (added 2004-06-08). Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 444 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: full score, recorder, vocal, cello parts available separately
Parts
- CPDL #7161: FInale-2000.
- Editor: Anders Stenberg (added 2004-06-08). Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 448 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: recorder, vocal, cello parts, Finale files zipped together. Full score also available separately
General Information
Title: Serenading Song, A
Composer: Henry Purcell
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: TB
Genre: Secular, Cantatas
Language: English
Instruments: 2 recorders, cello, continuo
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Original text and translations
English text
Tenor Solo:
- Soft notes, and gently rais'd,
- Let some harsh sound the fair Corinna's Rest do rudely Wound;
- Diffuse a Peaceful Calmness through each Part,
- touch all The Springs of a soft Virgin's Heart.
- Tune ev'ry Pulse and kindle all her Blood,
- and svell the Torrent of the living Flood;
- glide thro' her Dreams, and o're her Fancy move,
- and Stir up, Stir up all the Images of Love.
- Symphony for two flutes
Tenor Solo:
- Thus feeble Man does his advantage take,
- to gain in Sleep what he must lose awake,
- when Night and shades shut up Corinna's Charms,
- Then is the prop'rest time to take up Arms:
- But Night and Shades he Beauties can't conceal.
- Night has peculiar Graces to reveal.
Chorus:
- Ten thousand, thousand Raptures do attend,
- Ten thousand thousand Raptures do attend this time,
- too strong for Fancy, too strong for Fancy and too full,
- and too full, and too full, and too full for Rhime;
- Too strong for Fancy and too full for Rhime.
- Too strong for Fancy and too full for Rhime.