To Music (George Dyson)

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  • (Posted 2023-10-11)  CPDL #76243:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 512 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:
  • (Posted 2001-02-01)  CPDL #02041:       
Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2001-02-01).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 265 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: To Music
Composer: George Dyson
Lyricist: Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1920 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: 

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

TO MUSIC, TO BECALM HIS FEVER

Charm me asleep, and melt me so
   With thy Delicious Numbers,
That, being ravish’d, hence I go
   Away in easy slumbers.
        Ease my sick head,
        And make my bed,
   Thou Power that canst sever
        From me this ill:
        And quickly still:
        Though thou not kill
           My Fever.

Fall on me like the silent dew,
   Or like those Maiden show’rs
Which, by the peep of day, do strew
   A Baptime o’er the flow’rs.
        Melt, melt my pains
        With thy soft strains;
   That, having ease me given,
        With full delight
        I leave this light,
        And take my flight
           For Heaven.