Hark! above us on the mountain (Conradin Kreutzer)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-04-03). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 116 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Hark! above us on the mountain
Composer: Conradin Kreutzer
Lyricist: Ludwig Uhland
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1879 The Orpheus (New series) no.59
Description: An English translation of Kreutzer's Die Kapelle (Droben stehet), first setting (no. 17)
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Original text and translations
English text
Hark! above us on the mountain
Sad and solemn tolls the bell,
While a joyous herd-boy wanders,
Singing gaily, through the dell.
Now the train the steep ascending,
Chant the chorus loud and clear,
Hush'd the shepherd's song of gladness,
As the sound comes o'er his ear.
To their grave upon the mountain
All in turn consign'd must be,
Joyous herd-boy, joyous herd-boy,
Soon that bell shall toll for thee.