Drink to me only (Traditional)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2015-09-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 24 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: This edition is a transcription of the first known appearance of this popular glee in a collection of six glees "Composed by an amateur and most respectfully inscribed to Miss Fisher", London, c.1785. This publication pre-dates by some five years its arrangement published by John Wall Callcott, who is often (but clearly erroneously) credited with its composition. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
- Editor: Johannes Becker (submitted 2014-07-01). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 69 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: SATB, arranged by H. Elliot Button (1861–1925)
- Editor: John Reager (submitted 2013-06-06). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 79 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: SAB, Key of F
- Editor: Kayla Campbell (submitted 2010-04-19). Score information: 19 x 26 cm, 1 page, 123 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Arranged for SATB MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2008-07-12). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 23 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: For SSB. From "A select collection of catches, canons and glees, composed, selected and arranged by J.W. Callcott" [London c.1790] British Library Shelfmark D.413.
- MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-09). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 66 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central.
- Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2006-01-15). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 98 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Included in the TUMS Busking Book. Score begins on second page, after Alle psallite. Minor revision 28 May 2006 to reduce file size. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Drink to me only
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional) sometimes attrib. to John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Ben Jonson (1572 – 1637)
Number of voices: 3vv Voicings: SAB, SSB or SATB
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Lyrics first published after March, 1616, in the poem "To Celia". Most likely attribution of the music is to John Wall Callcott (see the discussion at page 203 of James J Fuld’s The Book of World Famous Music”, and also page 151 of William Emmett Studwell's The Americana song reader). See also Drink to me only with thine eyes (Elizabeth Turner), earlier setting of Jonson's poem by Elizabeth Turner.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Drink to me only with thine eyes.
- Christopher Shaw editions
- Johannes Becker editions
- John Reager editions
- Kayla Campbell editions
- SATB
- 4-part choral music
- Jonathan Goodliffe editions
- David Newman editions
- Philip Legge editions
- Traditional compositions
- SAB
- 3-part choral music
- SSB
- Secular music
- Arias
- Works in English
- A cappella
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- Classical music