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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
'''Title:''' ''If music be the food of love''<br> | '''Title:''' ''If music be the food of love''<br> | ||
'''Catalogue Number:''' Z 379b<br> | |||
{{Composer|Henry Purcell}} | {{Composer|Henry Purcell}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Henry Heveningham}} | |||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | {{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | ||
{{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}} | |||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
'''Instruments:''' part piano, part | '''Instruments:''' part {{PnoAcc|piano}}, part {{acap}}<br> | ||
'''Published:''' | '''Published:''' | ||
'''Description:'''SATB arrangement (not by Purcell) of song for voice and continuo accompaniment. The second verse comes from the alternate setting (Z 379a) published in the Gentleman's Journal of June 1692. | '''Description:''' SATB arrangement (not by Purcell) of song for voice and continuo accompaniment. The second verse comes from the alternate setting (Z 379a) published in the Gentleman's Journal of June 1692. | ||
'''External websites:''' | '''External websites:''' | ||
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==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
{{Text|English}} | {{Text|English}} | ||
If music be the food of love,<br> | If music be the food of love,<br> | ||
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The first line of Heveningham's poem quotes the opening seven words of ''Twelfth Night'' by Shakespeare, giving rise to the belief that Purcell's song is a setting of a Shakespearean text, when it is not. The play begins: | The first line of Heveningham's poem quotes the opening seven words of ''Twelfth Night'' by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], giving rise to the belief that Purcell's song is a setting of a Shakespearean text, when it is not. The play begins: | ||
''If music be the food of love, play on,<br> | ''If music be the food of love, play on,<br> | ||
Give me excess of it, that surfeiting,<br> | Give me excess of it, that surfeiting,<br> | ||
The appetite may sicken, and so die.'' | The appetite may sicken, and so die.'' | ||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Baroque music]] | [[Category:Baroque music]] | ||
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CPDL #19365: 
PDF, Midi & Overture
- Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2009-05-01). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 31 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
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- CPDL #6607:
Sibelius 3
- Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2004-01-30). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 36 kbytes Copyright: 2004 Philip Legge
- Edition notes: The same edition is also included in the TUMS Busking Book under the preceding entry, Il est bel et bon by Passereau.
General Information
Title: If music be the food of love
Catalogue Number: Z 379b
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: Henry Heveningham
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: part piano, part a cappella
Published:
Description: SATB arrangement (not by Purcell) of song for voice and continuo accompaniment. The second verse comes from the alternate setting (Z 379a) published in the Gentleman's Journal of June 1692.
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
If music be the food of love,
sing on till I am fill'd with joy;
for then my list'ning soul you move
with pleasures that can never cloy,
your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare
that you are music ev'rywhere.
Pleasures invade both eye and ear,
so fierce the transports are, they wound,
and all my senses feasted are,
tho' yet the treat is only sound.
Sure I must perish by our charms,
unless you save me in your arms.
The first line of Heveningham's poem quotes the opening seven words of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, giving rise to the belief that Purcell's song is a setting of a Shakespearean text, when it is not. The play begins:
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it, that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.