Classical Music | Ensemble Music

Recorded on 11/21/2009, uploaded on 02/03/2010

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

If music be the food of love              Henry Purcell

(Colonel Henry Heveningham)

If music be the food of love,

Sing on till I am fill'd with joy;

For then my list'ning soul you move

To pleasures that can never cloy.

Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare

That you are music ev'rywhere.

Pleasures invade both eye and ear,

So fierce the transports are, they wound,

And all my senses feasted are,

Tho' yet the treat is only sound,

Sure I must perish by your charms,

Unless you save me in your arms.

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.