Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Ensemble: 2 part trebles
Accompaniment: Piano
Page Count: 4
Catalog Number: NWC-177
Available from J. W. Pepper.
Note:
Music When Soft Voices Die is for two part treble voices and piano, a tender setting of the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821) about enduring love and the memory of a loved one passed. The peaceful piano accompaniment supports the beautiful lyric melody and counter harmony of the voice parts. Simple but heartfelt and moving. It can be sung by two solo voices or by a two-part treble choir.
Text:
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 heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)