singer, one-man choir, guitarist and composer
Be not afear'd – alto and guitar
SM-000085301
- Composer
- David W Solomons
-
Lyricist
-
William Shakespeare
- Publisher
- David W Solomons
- Genre
- Classical / Song
- Instrumentation
- Contralto, Countertenor, Classical guitar
- Type of score
- Score for two performers
- Duration
- 1'46"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Year of composition
- 1986
Description
A setting of Caliban's words to the intruders in
Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
for alto voice and guitar by
David W Solomons
Edited and fingered by Alessandro Balsimini
Performed by the composer
(note the cute glissandi!)
Be not a-fear'd the isle is full of noises
sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
sometimes a thousand thousand instruments
will hum about mine ears
and sometimes voices that, if I then had waked after long sleep,
will make me sleep again
and then in dreaming the clouds methought would open
and show riches ready to drop upon me
that when I wak'd I cried to dream a-gain
William Shakespeare - The Tempest (Act III Scene 2)