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How sweet the answer
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
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How sweet the answer by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry — Lyrics
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light.
Yet Love hath echoes truer far,
And far more sweet,
Than e'er beneath the moonlight's star,
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About How sweet the answer
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's part-song How Sweet the Answer is a beautiful setting for SATB choir of English words. The text draws a comparison between the natural echo of music and the deeper, more meaningful echo of a sigh of love returned. Parry's music reflects the gentle imagery of the opening stanzas, with their evocation of night and distant sounds, before moving to the more intimate and heartfelt expression of the final verse, where a sincere sigh is answered by the one to whom it is directed.
