A Sound of Music Floateth (John Liptrot Hatton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76689:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 356 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Sound of Music Floateth
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Beatrice Abercrombie
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1891 Edwin Ashdown
Description: Sacred Partsong for Mixed Voices

Original text and translations

English text

A sound of music floateth
Upon the morning air;
The voices of little children
Chanting their simple prayer.
Softly their holy burden
Heavenward the breezes bear,
Till by sweet choirs of angels,
’Tis caught up and echoed there.

And He, above, who listens,
Is the same who spake of old,
Those words on our hearts that are written
In characters of gold:
“Forbid not the little children,
Let them come unto me,
For of such is my Father’s Kingdom,
They who enter, like these must be.”