Go, Lovely Rose

• Instrumentation: trombone octet
  • Version in Bb (6 tenor, 2 bass)
  • Version in Db (6 tenor, 2 bass), though top line may be more comfortable on alto
• Approximate duration: 4½min
• Difficulty: moderate
• In Db version, Tbn 1 and 2 parts are also provided in tenor and alto clef
• Only digital/PDF files are provided upon checkout

Original choral work composed by Eric Whitacre, with text from Edmund Waller below:

Go, lovely Rose-
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that’s young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.

Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired:
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.

Then died! That she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!