The Silver Swan (1619) |
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| File: | gibbswan.nwc (March 2002) 1 kB |
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| Full name of work: | The Silver Swan (1619) |
| Composer: | Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625), English |
| About: | http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/gibbons.php |
| First line: | The silver swan, who, living, had no note |
| Music category: | Renaissance / Elizabethan |
| Instruments: | 5-part chorus |
| Name of file creator: | Grant Hicks |
| e-mail address: | ghicks02 "at" sprynet "dot" com |
| Running time: | 00:01:02 |
| Comments: | One of the loveliest of a lovely genre, the English madrigal. The text is apparently anonymous but its seriousness is characteristic of the texts Gibbons chose for his only book of madrigals. |