The Tyger (Mattia Culmone)

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  • (Posted 2016-08-08)  CPDL #40686:     
Editor: Mattia Culmone (submitted 2016-08-08).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 123 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: SSA setting.
  • (Posted 2016-08-08)  CPDL #40687:     
Editor: Mattia Culmone (submitted 2016-08-08).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 123 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: TTB setting.

General Information

Title: The Tyger
Composer: Mattia Culmone
Lyricist: William Blake

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: SSA or TTB
Genre: Secular

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?