How sweet the moonlight (John George Callcott)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75938:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 513 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: How sweet the moonlight
Composer: John George Callcott
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, minor S divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1886
    2nd published: 1917 Oliver Ditson
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Original text and translations

English text

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.

The Merchant of Venice
Act 5, Scene 1