1. “If music be the food of love…”
By Henry Purcell
Reka Juhasz

2. “If music be the food of love…”
• Composer: Henry Purcell
• Words by: Colonel Henry Heveningham
• First published in the Gentleman's Journal in
June, 1692
• Genre: secular

3. Henry Purcell
• 1659 – 1695
• English composer
• Composed in baroque style
• Composed mostly secular and sacred music

4. Colonel Henry Heveningham
• Lived in the 17th century
• lived in Heveningham Hall, Suffolk,
England
• A poet

5. Text
• “If music be the food of love,
sing on till I am fill'd with joy;
for then my list'ning soul you move
with pleasures that can never cloy,
your eyes, your mien, your tongue
declare
that you are music ev'rywhere.”
Heveningham used food
as a metaphor for
bringing music and love
together.

6. • Baroque style
• Very pitchy through the piece
• Very technical
Musical elements