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📖 Poem:

Musick, though Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel,
That strik'st a stilnesse into hell:
Thou that tam'st Tigers, and fierce starms (that rise)
With thy soule-melting Lullabies:
Fall down, down, down, from those thy chiming spheres,
To charme our soules, as thou enchant'st our eares.

Robert Herrick

📖 POEM: TO MUSIC

Begin to charm, and, as thou strokest mine ears
With thy enchatntment, melt me into tears.
Then let thy active hand scud o'er thy lyre,
And make my spirits frantic with the fire.
That done, sink down into a slivery strain,
And make me smooth as balm and oil again.

Robert Herrick

📖 POEM: From IL PENSEROSO

And when the sun begins to fling
His flaring beams, me goddess bring
To arched walks of twilight groves
And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves,
Of pine, or monumental oak,
Where the rude axe with heaved stroke
Was never heard the nymphs to daunt,
Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
There in close covert by some brook,
Where no profaner eye may look,
Hide me from day's garish eye,
While the bee with honeyed thigh,
That at her flowery work doth sing,
And the waters murmuring
With such consort as they keep,
Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep;
And let some strange, mysterious dream
Wave at his wings, in airy stream
Of lively portraiture displayed,
Softly on my eyelids laid.
And, as I wake, sweet music breathe
Above, about, or underneath,
Sent by some spirit to mortals good,
Or the unseen genius of the wood.
But let me due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloister's pale,
And love the high, embowed roof,
With antique pillars' massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim, religious light.
There let the pealing organ blow
To the full-voiced choir below
In service high and anthems clear,
As may with sweetness through mine ear
Dissolve me into exstasies,
And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

John Milton

📖 POEM:
Come, woeful Orpheus, with thy charming lyre
And tune thy voice unto thy skilful wire.
Some strange chromatic notes do you devise
That best with mournful accents sympathise.
Of sourest sharps and uncouth flats make choice
And I'll thereto compassionate my voice.

Anonymous
Byrd Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets (1611)

📖 POEM:
When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre,
The streams stand still, the stones admire;
The list'ning savages advance,
The wolf and lamb around him trip,
The bears in awkward measures leap,
And tigers mingle in the dance;
The moving woods attended as he played,
And Rhodope was left without a shade."
Joseph Addison A Song for St Cecilia's Day

Anthologies of Piano Music & Arrangements for Piano

There are innumerable anthologies of original piano music and arranged or transcribed repertoire to discover. New anthologies continue being printed and sometimes also adjusted to current taste etc. Many collections of works which belong to the stand canon of classical piano music continue to be reprinted in their original form.

Explore the Petrucci Music Library if you are interested in finding out-of-print music.

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Download Free Anthologies of Piano Music

👉 Philipp, Isidor Anthology of French Piano Music

👉 Moszkowski, Moritz Anthology of German Piano Music

👉 Oesterle, Louis The Pianist's Anthology

👉 Le musée des pianistes (70 Pieces by various composers)

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