The Apple (Sophia Green)
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- (Posted 2021-07-31) CPDL #65331:
- Editor: Sophia Green (submitted 2021-07-31). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 668 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: "The Apple" is a new spiritual and religious carol, appropriate for Christmas-time, Yuletide, or the end of the year, meant to address current spiritual need. Its setting is the melody of the traditional, anonymously composed and lyricized English The Boar's Head Carol (Traditional). The first known version was published in 1521 in the song-book Christmasse Carolles, edited by Wynkyn de Worde.
General Information
Title: The Apple
Composer: Sophia Green
Lyricist: Sophia Green
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2020
Description: "The Apple" is a new spiritual and religious carol, appropriate for Christmas-time, Yuletide, or the end of the year, meant to address current spiritual need. Its setting is the melody of the traditional, anonymously composed and lyricized English The Boar's Head Carol (Traditional). The first known version was published in 1521 in the song-book Christmasse Carolles, edited by Wynkyn de Worde.
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Original text and translations
English text
1 The apple red I bear in hand,
Winter fruit of snowy land;
and I pray you good people nourished be
for strength, love and posterity!
Chorus:
Fructus pomum defero.
Reddens laudes domino!
2 The apple tree understood aright,
is Autumn's grace to Hunger's bite;
and I pray you good people grateful be
for God's grace through Earth's Good for thee!
Chorus
3 Sweet apple trees give gen'rous yield
to creatures all who glean the field;
and I pray that of Good you give and sow,
that apples more and love may grow!
Chorus