Feasting I watch op.45.5 (Edward Elgar)

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• (Posted 2023-10-12)  CPDL #76269:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 694 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: SATB arrangement by Elgar from his original for male voices.

• (Posted 2022-01-01)  CPDL #67297:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-01-01).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 145 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

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Title: Feasting I watch op.45.5
Composer: Edward Elgar
Lyricist: Richard Garnett
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: TTBB or SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1903
    2nd published: 1922 Novello and Co.
Description: Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthology, No. 5

Original text and translations

English text

Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye
The flashing constellations' pageantry.
Solemn and splendid; then anon I wreathe
My hair, and warbling to my harp I breathe
My full heart forth, and know the heavens look down
Pleased, for they also have their Lyre and Crown.