Sonnet from the Portuguese XLIII

Digital Sheet Music

By David Perkins

Sonnet from the Portuguese XLIII by David Perkins

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Instrument:

Choir

Ensemble:

4-Part

SATB

Format:

Score

Level:

Intermediate

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Publisher:

David Perkins

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Composed by David Perkins. 21st Century, Valentine's Day, Anniversary, Birthday, Wedding. Score. 9 pages. Published by David Perkins (S0.595535).

Item Number: S0.595535

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written c.1845–1846 and published first in1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Here is the most famous of the sonnets from the collection, number 43, arranged for unaccompanied choir.

Barrett Browning was initially hesitant to publish the poems, believing they were too personal. However, her husband Robert Browning insisted they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them. To offer the couple some privacy, she decided to publish them as if they were translations of foreign sonnets. She initially planned to title the collection "Sonnets translated from the Bosnian" but Browning proposed that she claim their source was Portuguese, probably because of her admiration for Camões and Robert's nickname for her: "my little Portuguese". The title is also a reference to Les Lettres Portugaises (1669).

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