Can doleful notes? (Anonymous, set by J. Danyel) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Can doleful notes, to measured accents set,
Express unmeasured griefs which Time forget?
No, let chromatic tunes, harsh without ground,
Be sullen music for a tuneless heart.
Chromatic tunes most like my passions sound,
As if combined to bear their falling part.
Uncertain certain turns, of thoughts forecast,
Bring back the same, then die, and dying, last.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

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

John Danyel (1564-1626)

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