by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to Tobias Hume (c1569 - 1645)
Fain would I change that note
Language: English
Fain would I change that note To which fond Love hath charm'd me Long, long to sing by rote, Fancying that that harm'd me: Yet when this thought doth come 'Love is the perfect sum Of all delight!' I have no other choice Either for pen or voice To sing or write. O Love! they wrong thee much That say thy fruit is bitter, When thy rich fruit is such As nothing can be sweeter. Fair house of joy and bliss, Where truest pleasure is, I do adore thee: I know thee what thou art, I serve thee with my heart, And fall before thee.
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- sometimes misattributed to Tobias Hume (c1569 - 1645)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "Fain would I change that note ", op. 150 no. 2 (1980) [ high voice, oboe, and piano ], from Hebdomade, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Devotion" [ satb chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Fain would I change that note", c1918-1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Fain would I change that note", op. 15 (Six Songs) no. 2 (1903) [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Tobias Hume (c1569 - 1645), "Fain would I change that note", published 1605, from Musicall Humors [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Fain would I change that note", 1921 [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Mulholland (b. 1935), "Devotion" [ soprano, violoncello, and piano ], from Four Love Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893 - 1976), "Fain would I change that note", 1937 [ three-part chorus and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Fain would I change that note" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Fain would I change that note" [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Fair house of joy", op. 12 no. 7 (1907), published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, no. 7, London, Boosey [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alan Rawsthorne (1905 - 1971), "Fain would I change that note", c1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Fain Would I Change That Note", op. 123 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Fain would I change that note", op. 206 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Love's apology", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs with Piano, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by William Walton (1902 - 1983), "Fain would I change that note", from Anon. in Love, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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