Hymn to Diana (Mark Chapman)

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CPDL #18855:   LilyPond

Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2009-02-02).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 205 kB   Copyright: CPDLThis template name is reserved for future development (something in line with what was originally proposed by Pml).

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Title: Hymn to Diana
Composer: Mark Chapman
Lyricist: Ben Jonson

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: The setting of a Ben Jonson poem is deliberately simple, for a choir with trouble maintaining a separate tenor line.

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Original text and translations

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright.

Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wishèd sight, Goddess excellently bright.

Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever; Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.