\header { composer = "Orlando Gibbons" title = "The Silver Swan" enteredby = "mutopia@chubb.wattle.id.au" mutopiatitle = "The Silver Swan" mutopiacomposer = "GibbonsO" mutopiainstrument = "Voice (SAATB)" date = "1612" source = "http://www.musicaviva.com/ensemble/choir/music.tpl?filnavn=gibbons-silver-swan AND the Penguin Book of Madrigals" style = "Renaissance" copyright = "Public Domain" maintainer = "Peter Chubb" maintainerEmail = "mutopia@chubb.wattle.id.au" lastupdated = "2009/Aug/5" footer = "Mutopia-2009/08/05-302" tagline = \markup { \override #'(box-padding . 1.0) \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.7) \box \center-column { \small \line { Sheet music from \with-url #"http://www.MutopiaProject.org" \line { \teeny www. \hspace #-1.0 MutopiaProject \hspace #-1.0 \teeny .org \hspace #0.5 } • \hspace #0.5 \italic Free to download, with the \italic freedom to distribute, modify and perform. } \line { \small \line { Typeset using \with-url #"http://www.LilyPond.org" \line { \teeny www. \hspace #-1.0 LilyPond \hspace #-1.0 \teeny .org } by \maintainer \hspace #-1.0 . \hspace #0.5 Reference: \footer } } \line { \teeny \line { This sheet music has been placed in the public domain by the typesetter, for details see: \hspace #-0.5 \with-url #"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain } } } } } \version "2.12.0" global = { \time 4/4 \key f \major \dynamicUp \unset Staff.melismaBusyProperties \mark "A" \skip 1*6 \mark "B" \skip 1*7 \mark "C" } cantusMusic = \context Voice = cantus \relative c'' { \set Staff.midiInstrument = "recorder" \clef "treble" r4 c4 \mp c d | e2. f4 | d4. c8 bes4 a | g2. g4 | %5 bes4. c8 d4 a | c4 f, g4. f8 | f2 r2 | r4 f'4. f8 e4 | d2. c4 | %10 b! c d4. c8 | c2 r4 g'4 | c, f bes, d | g, a8[\> ( bes)] c4. bes8\! | a2 r2 | %15 r4 f'4. \p f8 e4 | d2. c4 b! c d4. c8 | c2 r4 g' | c,4 f bes, d\> | %20 g, a8[( bes)] c4. bes8\! | a1\fermata \pp \bar "|." } cantusWords = \lyricmode{ The sil -- ver swan, who liv -- ing had no note, When death ap -- proached un -- locked her si -- lent throat. Lean -- ing her breast a -- gainst the reed -- y shore Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: Fare -- well all joys; O Death come close mine eyes. More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise. } quintusMusic = \context Voice = quintus \relative c'{ \clef "G" \set Staff.midiInstrument = "recorder" r4 c4 \mp f f | e4. f8 g4 a| f4. e8 ( d4) c4 ~ | c8[ d e f] g4 g, ~ | %5 g d'4. e8 ( f4) | e4 f2 ( e4) | f4 a4. \mf a8 g4 | f4 d8[( e] f[ g ] a4) | d,4. e8 f[( g a) f] | %10 g2. g4 | e f g4. g8 | a4 f g4. f8 | e4 f2 ( \> e4) | f4\! a4. \p a8 g4 | %15 f4 d8[( e] f[ g] a4) | d,4. e8 f[ g( a f)] | g2. g4 | e4 f g4. g8 | a4 f g4. f8 | e4 f2( e4) | f1\fermata \bar "|." } quintusWords = \lyricmode{ The sil -- ver swan, who liv -- ing had no note, When death ap -- proached un -- locked her si -- lent throat. Lean -- ing her breast a -- gainst the reed -- y shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more, no more: Fare -- well, all joys, O __ death, come close mine eyes, More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise, than __ wise } altusMusic = \context Voice = altus \relative c { \set Staff.midiInstrument = "recorder" \clef "G2_8" r4 c' c b! | c2. c4 | bes bes f' f | e2. e4 | %5 d4. c8 bes4 f | g a g g | a2 r4 c \mp ~ | c8[ c] bes4 a a | bes4. c8( d[ e f c)] | %10 es4 es d2 | g4 c, d c ~ | c d8[( f)] es4 d | c2 c | c r4 c4 ~ | %15 c8[ c] bes4 a a | bes4. c8( d[ e f c)] | es4 es d2 | g4 c, d c ~ | c d8[ ( f)] es4 d4 | c2 c | c1 } altusWords = \lyricmode { The sil -- ver swan, who liv -- ing had no note, When death ap -- proached un -- locked her si -- lent throat; Lean -- ing her breast a -- gainst the __ reed -- y shore, Thus sung her first and last and sung no more. 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