Music, when soft voices die (Philip Legge)

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CPDL #22478: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 5
Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2010-10-21).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 124 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND 2.5 Australia
Edition notes: may also be sung as SATB with ad lib. piano accompaniment.

General Information

Title: Music, when Soft Voices die
Composer: Philip Legge
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB–SATB

Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2010 (Joint Issue: Choral Public Domain Library, Petrucci Music Library)

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Original text and translations

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Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.