No. When the work wasInterview with Genevieve Arkle Genevieve Arkle is currently a final-year PhD researcher at The University of Surrey, where she is writing her thesis on the musical allusions to Richard Wagner’s Parsifal in Gustav Mahler’s songs and symphonies.John Rutter: A Gaelic Blessing Context Commissioned by the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska in 1978, John Rutter’s A Gaelic Blessing is one of his most popular works. To learn more, see our [author's text not yet checked against a primary source] <> The tender ending shows the highest octave shine through. stream %PDF-1.5 The use of small vocal trills, mordents and turns, the melodic line is decorated throughout. O solitude, O how I solitude adore! the information here useful, please consider making a %�쏢 a text in French by Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594-1661) , "La solitude"un texte en français par Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594-1661), "La solitude"Music by Henry Purcell (1658/9-1695) , "O solitude, my sweetest choice", Z. This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you O, how agreeable a sight These hanging mountains do appear, Which th' unhappy would invite L�5������U��U�*�����s�^����^���h4}���*z|T�*������������ܧ���@���O�~O"�`�tx��{��m��LiK�b���t���/iAq��xu��HH��������kz��/�}s���ۇ�z�o�)n������Џ&�x������p�����oZzm:~�xu+�`as������n�9d~��팯��.mH���êݦw���xE�����㵼�_�����':%�����k@�+E@Ĭ�T��A�/P+���(=��˃N_���a�S��^z��^�g���˃N_�����D���e������k��G����\ΰ�("g��Fd���C���W���e2k�C��o�#? 406, published 1684/5Musique par Henry Purcell (1658/9-1695), "solitude O, ma douce choix", Z. O Solitude My Sweetest Choice Places Devoted To The Night Remote From Tumults And From Noise How Ye.. (paroles de la chanson O Solitude – HENRY PURCELL) Places devoted to the night, Remote from tumult and from noise, How ye my restless thoughts delight! been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Although slow in tempo, the lamenting of the voice shows the harmonic variation that Purcell uses with such few instruments. There is also a sense of vulnerability as the voice laments on the ‘O’ and ‘solitude’. Title A Song on a Ground Composer Purcell, Henry: Opus/Catalogue Number Op./Cat. O Solitude (Z. O heav'ns! 5 0 obj Germaine Tailleferre: String Quartet Context French composer Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) composed her String Quartet over a creative two-year period between 1917-1919.
Philips, who died of smallpox in 1664, was one of the most popular poets of Purcell’s youth, and the theme of this poem (published in Philips’s Poems. Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc. All of this culminated with the simple accompaniment makes for a really effective song. The text was taken from English poet Katherine Philips, who had translated part of the original poem by Marc-Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant.harmony is based around a 12-note bass ostinato that trudges along throughout the song. what content is mine To see these trees, which have appear'd From the nativity of time, And which all ages have rever'd, To look today as fresh and green As when their beauties first were seen. O heav'ns, what content is mine To see these trees, which have appear'd From the nativity of time, And which all ages have rever'd, To look today as fresh and green As when their beauties first were seen. However, due to this freedom it doesn’t sound like it’s being repeated. _____ C'est une chanson du compositeur baroque anglais Henry Purcell. choice, O so li- tude,- O so - li tude,- my 6 § 6 6 § sweet est,- - sweet est- choice: Pla-ces de-vo ted- to the 11 § 5 6 6 6 night, Re mote- from tu mult- andfromnoise, Howyemy rest - - 16 4 § 5 6 4 lessthoughts de light!- O so li- tude,- O 21 Y # § 4 § 6 Katherine Philips O solitude A song upon a ground Henry Purcell (1659-1695) ed. The text of O solitude was drawn by Purcell from three verses of Katherine Philips’s skilful translation of ‘La solitude’ by Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661).

The voice receives great freedom in this song, and the rich motif created at the start is repeated a staggering amount of times.