The Nightingale

[Instrumental] [Extended Virtuoso Musical Transition to Verse][Ease Off][Elizabethan][Historic Strings] [Verse][Slow, Articulate][Downtempo] The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, While late bare earth, proud of new clothing, springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making, . And mournfully bewailing, Her throat in tunes expresseth What grief her breast oppresseth For Tereus’ force on her chaste will prevailing. . . O Philomela fair, O take some gladness, That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness: Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth; Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. [Extended Virtuoso Musical Symphonic Solo][Elizabethan] [Extended Virtuoso Musical Transition to Verse][Elizabethan][Historic Strings] [Verse][Slow, Articulate][Downtempo] Alas, she hath no other cause of anguish But Tereus’ love, on her by strong hand wroken, Wherein she suffering, all her spirits languish; Full womanlike complains her will was broken. . . But I, who daily craving, Cannot have to content me, Have more cause to lament me, Since wanting is more woe than too much having. . . O Philomela fair, O take some gladness, That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness: Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth; Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. . (Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth.) [Extended Virtuoso Historic Strings Transition to Instrumental][Modulated][Symphonic] That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness: Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth; Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. . . [Bridge] [Verse][Modulated][Layered] O Philomela fair, O take some gladness, That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness: Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth; Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. [Musical Transition to Refrain] [Refrain] (Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth.) . . (Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth.) [Extended Virtuoso Musical Symphonic Solo][Elizabethan][Mysterious] [Extended Virtuoso Historic Strings Transition to Instrumental][Modulated][Courtly][Experimental][Strange] [Extended Virtuoso Musical Transition to Verse][Elizabethan][Historic Strings] [Verse][Slow, Articulate][Downtempo] (Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth.) . . (Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth.) [Bridge] [Extended Virtuoso Musical Transition to Verse] [Verse][Shakespearean Spoken Word][Mysterious and Slow][Layered][Acoustic][Quiet and Deep Male Vocals] ... I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And ’twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war— graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ’em forth By my so potent art. . . . But this rough magic, I here abjure. And, when I have required Some heavenly music—which even now I do— . I'll break my staff, . Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, . And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. (I'll drown my book.) (I'll drown my book.) [Extended Virtuoso Shakespearean Transition to Outro][Courtly][Experimental][Strange][Modulation] [Outro] [Drop] [Bridge] [Extended Virtuoso Renaissance Musical Transition to Verse] [Verse][Spoken Word][Mysterious and Slow][Layered][Acoustic][Quiet and Deep Male Vocals] [Build] ... I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And ’twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war— graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ’em forth By my so potent art. . . . [Peak] But this rough magic, I here abjure. . [Ease Off] And, when I have required Some heavenly music (which even now I do) . I'll break my staff, . Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, . And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. (I'll drown my book.) (I'll drown my book.) . . [Introspective, Mysterious] And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. (I'll drown my book.) (I'll drown my book.) [Extended Virtuoso Renaissance Music Transition to Outro][Courtly][Experimental][Strange][Modulation] [Outro] [Introspective, Fade][Mysterious] (I'll drown my book.) . (I'll drown my book.) . (I'll drown my book.) [Bridge][Mysterious, Otherwordly] [Extended Virtuoso Historic Strings Transition to Outro][Otherwordly][Experimental][Strange][Modulation][Atonal] [Outro] (I'll drown my book.) . (I'll drown my book.) . (I'll drown my book.) . (I'll drown my book.)