The silver swan
Orlando Gibbons
Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.
- Voicing
- SATBarB
- Key
- F major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- quarter note = 80
- Length
- 21 bars
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano part
Range
Lowest F4Highest G5
Alto part
Range
Lowest G3Highest A4
Tenor part
Range
Lowest F3Highest G4
Baritone part
Range
Lowest C3Highest D4
Bass part
Range
Lowest F2Highest B♭3
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The words
Verse 1
The silver swan,who living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last,and sung no more, no more: Farewell,all joys; O death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise, than wise.
Free to sing: Orlando Gibbons died in 1625.