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IRELAND, John (1879-1962). Autograph music manuscript signed, a song 'Weep you no more, sad fountains' (words by John Dowland), n.p., n.d. [1906], inscribed in autograph 'for my friend Percy Bertram (this MS: carries all rights of publication: John Ireland: Dec: 22 [1]952)', annotated in another hand in pencil '1906: unpublished', 3 pages, folio (some spotting).
The setting, marked 'Not too slowly' is for four unaccompanied voices, though Ireland provides an accompaniment 'for practice only'. A neat essay in a madrigal style, it sets the final lines 'Rest you then, rest, sad eyes! Melt not in weeping! While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies, Sleeping!' on a diminuendo from p to ppp. The words are a characteristically melancholic composition by the composer John Dowland (1603; from the Third Book of Airs). THE SONG IS APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED AND UNLISTED.
The setting, marked 'Not too slowly' is for four unaccompanied voices, though Ireland provides an accompaniment 'for practice only'. A neat essay in a madrigal style, it sets the final lines 'Rest you then, rest, sad eyes! Melt not in weeping! While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies, Sleeping!' on a diminuendo from p to ppp. The words are a characteristically melancholic composition by the composer John Dowland (1603; from the Third Book of Airs). THE SONG IS APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED AND UNLISTED.