If Music Be The Food Of Love
If Music Be The Food Of Love. If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; Pleasures invade both eye and ear, so fierce the transports are, they wound, and all my senses feasted are,
Pleasures invade both eye and ear, so fierce the transports are, they wound, and all my senses feasted are,
Do you like to listen to the same kind of music in the car? The song if music be the food of love is thought by some to be a setting of a shakespearean text, however the only direct quotation is the first line, which matches the opening seven words heard in twelfth night.purcell set this text, by one colonel henry heveningham, twice in the 1690s, and made two slightly different versions of the first setting. Give me even excess of that food, so that the desire, cloyed by that excess, may become sick, and in time may die; If music be the food of love.