Better music ne'er was known (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-05-04). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 96 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Keyboard reduction of vocal parts for practice only.
General Information
Title: Better music ne'er was known
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Francis Beaumont
Lyricist: John Fletcher
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1898 in Eight Four-Part Songs, no. 8
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Original text and translations
English text
Better music ne'er was known,
Than a pair of hearts in one.
Let each other that hath been
Troubled with the gall or spleen,
Learn of us to keep his brow
Smooth and plain as ours are now.
Sing though before the hour of dying
He shall rise, and then be crying,
Heyho! 'Tis naught but mirth
That keeps the body from the earth.