MUSICAL COMPOSITION

THE TREATMENT OF VOICES 131example of this can be given by setting the verse aboveto note-values, in time and barred.Full fa-thom fivethy fa - ther lies;::>Of hisIJ· 1'} f'. I J . 11' l' ~ .VI: f'. } Ibones are co - ral made; Those are pearls that were his~ I ... UJ4 }J41' l' IJ 1'1' Ieyes; No - thin, of him that doth fade, But dothl.t }- l' J 1 Jauf-fer a sea - change~ .t l.t l' J. l' I-J . IIn-to 8Ome-thingrichandstrange.Purcell's setting of this stanza (with the exceptionof his lengthening of the first syllables of "coral II and"nothing ") almost exactly carries out this roughscheme, and shows how it can be as easily reproducedin square time as in %:.-r:. .--- ~T. _._--­r-4l~-:::=:=F=ul~l~fa=-thom five thy fa - ther lies; Of his bones are~Yr~~g~~=f:f@jco • - - ral made: Those are pearls that were hisE~- r "~t$i I r ~f r r r fFTI-:=g~eyes; No - - - - thing of him that doth~-B'J ~).SE~~=@fade, Butdoth auf - fer, doth auf - fer a sea.,,--(I 9 G ttt;!; I~/S tiEdchanp In-to 801D8 thing rich and strause.