If music be the food of love [choir SSATB unaccompanied]

  • for choir SSATB

  • Duration 2' 15"

Words

by William Shakespeare

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Text

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O! it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets...

from Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)