Sulamith : the song of songs : for soli, chorus and orchestra
Publisher: G. Schirmer
Published: 1882
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: No. 1. PRELUDE. — ORCHESTRA.; title: No. 2. DUETT FOR SOPRANO AND TENOR.; title: Tell me, O thou, whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon.; title: No. 3. TENOR SOLO WITH MALE CHORUS.; title: Behold, thou art fair, my love; thou hast dove's eyes. Thou art the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.; title: No. 4. MIXED CHORUS.; title: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.; title: No. 5. SOPRANO SOLO.; title: I rose to unlock for my beloved, with sweet fragrant myrrh perfumed the limbs: I longed for my beloved in the night, I waited in vain — and I fell asleep: — Hark! it knocketli, hark! the dearest voice sounds forth! "Oh! unlock, my love, my dearest sister! My tender dove, my angel undefiled! Tarry not, unlock my love, my angel, unlock! —; title: Trembling for joy, breathless with rapture, enchanted by his voice, how beats my heart with pulses longing for coming pleasures! I haste, draw the bolt quickly back — and gaze with terror into the vacant night! — Lo! I awake and see, it is a dream, a painful dream! —; title: O, I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, whene'er you meet my friend: tell him that I am sick with love's desire, tell my sorrows, the griefs of my tortured soul. Conjure him, as I conjure you: to haste, to come and kiss me sound again!; title: No. 6. ORCHESTRA.; title: He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.; title: No. 7. TENOR SOLO.; title: "How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with thine eyes, with the chain of thy neck. A garden inclosed is my sister; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed, a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon."; title: No. 8. OCTETTE FOR FEMALE VOICES, WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT.; title: Whither is thy beloved gone, 0 thou fairest among women? Whither is thy be- loved turned aside? that we may seek with thee.; title: No. 9. DUETTE FOR SOPRANO AND TENOR.; title: Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field: let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vine yards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear aud the pomgranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves, O my beloved!; title: No. 10. FINAL CHORUS.; title: Love is strong as death; many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Love is strong as death.