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Orlando Gibbons's setting of Sir Walter Raleigh's sonnet "What is our life?".  Raleigh's somber lament was written while awaiting execution in the Tower of London. The resulting posthumous collaboration, a concise musical statement of great intensity and concentration, is one of the masterpieces of the English madrigal repertoire.


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General Information

Title: What is our life?
Composer: Orlando Gibbons

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella
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External websites: http://www.oldmusicproject.com


Original text and translations

Original text: English.png English text What is our life, our life? A play of passion.
Our mirth the music of division.
Our mother's wombs the 'tiring houses be,
where we are dress'd for this short comedy.
Heav'n the judicious sharp spectator is,
that sits and marks still who doth act amiss.
Our graves, that hide us from the searching sun
are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we, playing to our latest rest;
Only we die in earnest, that's no jest.

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