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Music, when soft voices die

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE GER GER

Music, when soft voices die,	
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so [thy]¹ thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

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¹ Bridge: "my"

Authorship:

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To ----", appears in Posthumous Poems, first published 1824 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Emil Gustave Ahnell (b. 1925), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text not yet checked]
by George Aitken (b. 1882), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gilbert A. Alcock , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1928 [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward Allen , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1913, from Four Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by William Henry Anderson (1882 - 1955), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1947 [ SSA chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by George Benjamin Arnold , "Music, when soft voices die" [ ATBB chorus and piano ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Music, when soft voices die", 2009 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (b. 1856), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1883, from Sechs Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Judith Margaret Bailey , "Music", 1969 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Settings of Poems by Shelley [sung text not yet checked]
by Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874 - 1946), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1929 [ TTBB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1912 [ SATBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Seymour Barab (1921 - 2014), "Music, when soft voices die", copyright © 1988 [ soprano or tenor, violin, cello, and harpsichord or piano ], from Airs and Fancies, no. 1, New York : Galaxy Music : Contemporary Art Song Series [sung text not yet checked]
by Alice Barnett (1886 - 1975), "Music, when soft voices die", published c1926 [sung text not yet checked]
by Katherine Barry , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1922, from Four Song Cameos [sung text not yet checked]
by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Music, when soft voices die", 1900 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by T. Harold R. Bayley , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1902 [ 2-part treble chorus a cappella ], no. 19 of series 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Mary Lane Bayliff , "Music", published 1904, from Two Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward Bement , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1919 [sung text not yet checked]
by George John Bennett (1863 - 1930), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs Set to Poems of Shelley and Rossetti, no. 4, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Bergh (1882 - 1962), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 37 no. 1, published 1947 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by (Edward) Maurice Besly (1888 - 1945), "Music, when soft vocies die", op. 11 no. 1, published 1922 [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred Blume , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1891 [sung text not yet checked]
by N. Bradshaw , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1869 [sung text not yet checked]
by H. L. Brainard , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1902 [sung text not yet checked]
by (William) Havergal Brian (1876 - 1972), "Music, when soft voices die", 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), "Music, when soft voices die" [ medium voice, viola, piano ], from Three songs with viola, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Percy Carter Buck, Sir (1871 - 1947), "Music, when soft voices die" [ bass and piano ], from Three Songs for Bass Voice, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by R. Burnham , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1920, note: score contains a French translation by Maurice Boucher (Quand tu ne seras plus la) [sung text not yet checked]
by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Music, when soft voices die", 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gerald Busby (b. 1935), "Music, when soft voices die" [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Music, when soft voices die -- Three Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano [sung text not yet checked]
by Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1956 [ SATB chorus ], in the Elkin choral series no. 2428, with tonic sol-fa notation [sung text checked 1 time]
by Eugene Sanders Butler (b. 1935), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
by Noble Cain (1896 - 1977), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1939 [ 4-part women's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by (Thomas) Frederick Handel Candlyn (1892 - 1964), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1920 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by J. H. Casely , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], London, Weekes [sung text not yet checked]
by Samuel Ward Casey , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1919 [ men's chorus a cappella ], York, Banks and Son [sung text not yet checked]
by Stephen Chatman (b. 1950), "Music, when soft voices die", 1984 [ SATB chorus and oboe (or flute, or violin, or clarinet) ], from There is sweet music here, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), "Music, when soft voices die", 1907 [ SATB chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897 - 1965), "Music, when soft voices die", L. 358 (1922) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005), "Music, when soft voices die", 1943, published c1944 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 9 no. 2 (1905?), published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], confirmed with a 1989 edition published by Recital Publications, Huntsville, TX [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Bruce Faith (b. 1926), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text not yet checked]
by Otto Freudenthal (b. 1934), "Music, when soft voices die" [ voice and piano ], from Three Shelley Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877 - 1950), "Music, when soft voices die", 1897, published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Two Lyrics, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Gold (1921 - 1999), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Kaufer (1909 - 1990), "Music when soft voices die", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Dover Beach and Other Songs, no. 1, Waukegan, Illinois: Lyric-Art [sung text checked 1 time]
by Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881 - 1916), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 6 (Six Songs) no. 4 (1910), published 1913 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Libby Larsen (b. 1950), "Music, when soft voices die", first performed 1994 [ voice, violoncello, and piano ], from Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Music, when soft voices die" [ satb chorus and piano ], from Six Modern Lyrics, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Music", op. 12 no. 3 (c1873), published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Quincy C. Porter (1897 - 1966), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1947 [sung text not yet checked]
by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Music, when soft vocies die " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Michael Purves-Smith (b. 1945), "Music when soft voices die", 2005 [ SATB chorus, oboe, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 25 (Six songs) no. 5 (1926), published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Winthrop Rogers [sung text checked 1 time]
by Betty Roe (b. 1930), "Music, when soft voices die", published 2002 [ duet for soprano and baritone with piano ], from Two Duets, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1903 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Wind Flowers, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Henk van der Vliet , "Music, when soft voices die", 1977, from 5 songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Music, when soft voices die", 1911, published 1972 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by George John Bennett.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) ; composed by Feodor Könemann, Boris Lvovich Levinson, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky, Vladimir Ivanovich Pol, Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev.
Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Ivan Matveyevich Steshenko (1873 - 1918) ; composed by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901

Researcher for this text: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 46