Orlando Gibbons Quotes

• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Proportion, Music Is, Whole

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• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Swans, Bird, Silver

  'The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts' (1612) 'The Silver Swan'

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• The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'

  Orlando Gibbons

  Wise, Farewell, Eye

  1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

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