Mature singers and novice singers love how the voice sounds when singing this piece and the chance to expressively sing of an unrequited love. It can also be an etude used to practice tuning intervals of the fourth as well as understanding use of a sustained pentascale that is also used for phrasing and text imagery. The piece itself does not begin on the tonic, rather on the third.
After the interval of a fourth ascent, the C is sustained not for four counts but for five and one-half counts which helps choristers the pulse of the downbeat without accentuating it. Written in the key of F Major it is easily singable for almost any choir since it is only the octave range. The text is beautifully depicted with the pattern of rising intervals of a fourth beginning on the dominant note and climbing to the octave. Our Purcell ensemble for novice singers ages eight through twelve has just performed John DOWLAND’S Come Again, Sweet Love. These pieces are ideal for not only increasing vocabulary and one’s ability to articulate more precisely our thoughts, but for teaching scales, unpredictable rhythms, asymmetry, and patterns.
These are not necessarily easy pieces and the text is profoundly meaningful and often times words we unfortunately no longer use in our everyday conversations. There is poignant poetry scored for choir in madrigals and folk songs from around the globe. Sometimes, you just remember what has always been beautiful and will always remain so. Sometimes, the restriction of a budget can send you to the pieces that have collected dust in your choral library or are in the public domain. We don’t always have to have the newest, latest piece of music to introduce to our choirs.
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