Spring (Walter Cecil Macfarren)

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•  Posted on 2023-11-13(Posted 2023-11-13)  CPDL #77277:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 376 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2019-07-28)  CPDL #54913:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-28).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 120 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a major 3rd to F.

• (Posted 2019-07-28)  CPDL #54910:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-28).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In original key of A.

General Information

Title: Spring
Composer: Walter Cecil Macfarren
Lyricist: Mary Cowden Clarke

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1872 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 5, no. 156
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Original text and translations

English text

A glee for jovial, happy Spring,
The season when the nightingale
In rapture doth her heart outfling,
Rejoicing ev'ry hill and dale.
With song we'll laud the jovial Spring,
As doth the voiceful nightingale;
We'll let our voices cheerful ring,
And tuneful make the woodland vale,
A glee for jovial, happy Spring,
Rejoicing ev'ry hill and dale.

All glory to the jovial Spring,
The season of the nightingale;
Like her, its praises will we sing,
And greet it with a loud "All hail."
The season when the nightingale,
In rapture doth her heart outfling;
With song we'll laud the jovial Spring,
As doth the voiceful nightingale
We'll let our voices cheerful ring,
And tuneful make the woodland vale,
A glee for jovial, happy Spring,
Rejoicing ev'ry hill and dale.