Envelope contains
1 choral/orchestra score (facsimile – used by PRH)
2 choral/orchestral scores (facsimiles)
1 harp score (facsimile)
1 reader score (facsimile)
6 choral scores (facsimiles)
1 choral score (facsimile – irregular?)
See Night Music: 1. Silent Departure for detailed notes.
Lyrics
Reader: Beautiful are the mountains from whence our music comes and flows,—and bright those streams from which we learn our songs—
Choir: Draw on sweet night, best friend unto those cares that do arise from painful melancholy.
Reader: Where are the starry woods? O could we wander there among the flowers which in that heavenly air, bloom the year long?
Choir: My life so ill through want of comfort, fares that unto thee. I consecrate it wholly…
Reader: Our song do haunt our dreams whose pining visions dim—no dying cadence nor sigh can sound for all our art.
Choir: Sweet night draw on, my griefs when they be told to shades of darkness, fine some ease from paining and while thou all in silence dost enfold, I then shall have best time for my complaining.
Reader: And then, as night is withdrawn from those sweet-springing fields of May, dream while the innumberable choir of day welcomes the dawn!
