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Maconchy, Elizabeth Four Shakespeare Songs
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Four Shakespeare Songs
Elizabeth Maconchy
(1956/1965)
(1907–1994)
1. Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it. My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
3. Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain. (Measure for Measure)
Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there.
4. King Stephen was a worthy peer; His breeches cost him but a crown; He held ‘em sixpence all too dear, With that he called the tailor loon. He was a wight of high renown, And though art but of low degree. ‘Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
(Twelfth Night)
(Othello)
2. When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man’s estate, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, ‘Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came unto my beds, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, With tosspots still had drunken heads, For the rain it raineth every day. A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, But that’s all one, our play is done, And we’ll strive to please you every day. (Twelfth Night)
Come away, death. Elizabeth Maconchy
Poco Lento (tempo libero)
G
Soprano
G Piano
0
5 5
I G 5 :
!5 : 5
cy
-
E5 5 5I
5 5 5 5 ? 5 5
let me
5 5 5 G = 5 fly a - way
5= I B ,
breath
,
5
5 = I B
come a - way
5
!5 : = 5 5 5 = BB:
5
5 !5 I B 4 5 f
5 5 5 !EBB 5 !B poco sf
f = 4 5 5 EB 5 I am slain
,
And in sad
= 5 5 5 5 !E 55 55 :: 4 5
B B
p
4
55 55
poco cresc
E5 5I
0
5
5 5I
mp
5 5 5
Fly a - way
5 !5 5 5 5
5I !E 55 55 :: espress 5
5 mp 5 !B 5 ! B poco sf 5 5B
mp
!5 5 5 5 5 5
55 ! 55 5
B
5=
by a fair cruel maid
poco sf
5 5 : 5 ! 5 ! 5 55 G 5 5 5: 5 5 5 B 5 5 B 5 5 5 5 5 5: 5 f sf p 5 5
B B B B 5 B 5 B B B E!BB :: B 5 B !B : Š 2007 Chester Music Limited
= = 5 5 5 5
death
4
be laid.
= 4 5 5 E 5 5 5 !5
5 5 E5 5 I 5 poco sf 5
11
,
Come a - way
rinf I I I
! 5 = 5 5 5 B
press
G 5 5: 5 E 55 5 :
5
I 5:
5 = 5 5 5
4 ! 5 5 5
mp espress.
B B:
6
mp
(q=c.60)
B
4
.
5 5
5
!5 :
mp espress
BB : B: B:
5
B !B:
5
4
The wind and the rain Elizabeth Maconchy
Allegro molto Voice
1 : G :
(q=96-100)
0
= 1.
: 2G :
Piano
0
=
When
that I
5
5 5
3. But when I
5 3
! 5 5 : 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 = G : f staccato sempre E5 :: E5 = 4
4 M M M M
1 G E5 5 5 5 5 5 :
little
tiny
boy
M M M M
2G E5 5 5 5 5 5 : come a - las! to
$ 3 E5 5 E5
5
With
,
hey
M M M M M5 5M 5 5 5 5 was and a little, little M5 5M M M M M M M 5 5 5 5 5 5
M M M 5 5 5
5
come, a - las, a - las, a - las! I
0 0
E5
E5 ho, ho
3
E5
hey,
ho,
8
wind
5
the
$ 53
wive
M M M$ M M = 5 5 5 5 G 5 5 E5 5 5 5 5 5 M M 5M 5 5 M$ 5M 5 5 M$ 5M 5 5 mp M $ M
M M 5 E5 5 B 5 5 4
1 5: 2G !5
5
M M 535 5
E5 and the rain
= 4 5
=
M$ 5M 5M 5M 5M 5 E5M 5M =
5
E5 5 5 55 5 5 5 (1) A fool (3) By swag
3 $5 5 E5 : 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 55 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5!5 5 5B G = !5 5
f mf leggiero E 5 5 = 4 B5 4 5: 5 sf
ish ger - ing
-
5 5 B5
5 5:
thing could
5 5
5
8
Take, O take those lips away Elizabeth Maconchy
Andante con moto (q=c.84)
Voice
G
0
0
IBB :: B: G B :
IBB :: BB ::
Take
B :: BBB ::
5 5 5
5:
, O
B :: BBB ::
G BI
5I : 5 5: 5 E 5 5 5 I
5
7
3 G E5I 5 B
5=
B
way
4
.
IBB :: BB ::
IBB :: BB ::
p espr.
G !BI
That so
4 5 5
4
,
And these
IBB :: B: G B : 5 5 5
18
5 G =4 .
G !5 5 G BB
!5 5
5
take
those
5
! B :
B
5
sworn
mp
55 = 4 4 5
!BI
5
8
5 ! 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
I5 !35 B
of
day
55 5 ! 5 5 55 5 B =
mp
that do mis - lead
5
3 E5I 5 B
IBB :: 5555 B: = 4 4 B :
espr.
5 = B : BI :
5
5
lips apoco pesante
for -
I: 55 BB : 55 = B :
B: B: B : 5 5 5 5 B5 : 5: I I I I B5 : B5 : 5 : 5 5 5 B : B:
B
5
were
eyes , the break
BB BB
poco pesante
ly
B: B: B:
5 5 5 5
IBB :: BB ::
Lights
=
I 5 !BBB:::! 5 B
5 5: 5 : 4 4 5 5 !5 5
4
5 5 5
5
sweet
! IBB :: BB ::
13
G 5I :
B
5I : 5 5 5 IB : 5 B 5B :
5
= 4 5 G
B:
5 5
B
5 555 = 4 4 B: 5 5 5 5 : I 3 3 I 5 5 = 4 4 B :5 5 5 : G B:
mp espress.
Piano
G
4 4 5
55 = 4 5 5 55 = 4
B: B: 5 5
B
the morn
4 mp
G5
= 5
4 =5 5
;
IBB :: BB ::
But my
B :: BBB ::
espr.
!5I : 5 E5 5: 5 5 I
5
King Stephen
10
Elizabeth Maconchy
Voice
Allegro (q=c.112)
G
5
0
4
0
5 5 5E5
5 5 5 5 E5
King
G Piano
5k
mf leggiero
G 4 5E5 5 5
Stephen was a
-
!B
thy
peer,
5 5 5E5
3E5E5E5 5 5 5 5
0
5M =
wor
E5
leggiero
poco martellato
0
0
5 5E5
(senza ped.)
6
His
5k
11
G
E5
5 E5 !5
5
breeches
cost
him
but
;
0
G G
5:
= 5 5 5
G
5M =
5
4
4
marc. k 5
E55
!5k
55
5M 5M = 5M
5 ! 5 5 5 he called the
5 k 5 5 !5 5 5M
He
5k
=
5
5
tailor
4
M 5M 5 =
them
0
5M =
5 5 5
5
held
5
leggiero
!5 5 !5
E55
mf
0
=
4
loon
.
3 55 5M M 5M
3 55 5M 5M =:
55 55 55
poco f
0
5k
!55I
poco f
meno f
4
= E5
ritmico e distinto
M M M M M 5M 5M I ! 5 G ! 5 5 5 !5 5
16
5k
With that
= k 5 :: !5 5
marc.
mp
= 5 5 :
=
5 5 ! 5
0
5 5
5 ! 5 !5 5
0
G !5k 5 5
crown
0
sixpence all too dear,
G
a
5
He was a wight of
B G B B
pp
!B B
high
re - nown
B ,
5 = 3 5 3 55 3 5 5M 5 5M 5M 5M M 5M poco f !55 = 4 $ G k 5 5k ! 5 E5 M f poco marc.
And
5 5 5M M 5M =:
3 E 5k
5
5 5 5 5 5 5 5M 5 5
! 55 *