Futility (James Crawford): Difference between revisions

From ChoralWiki

Latest revision as of 02:15, 18 July 2021

Music files

**L E G E N D**
ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	MusicXML
	MuseScore
	File details
	Help

(Posted 2020-01-02) CPDL #56496:

Editor: James Crawford (submitted 2020-01-02). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 81 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Futility
Composer: James Crawford
Lyricist: Wilfred Owen

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: S
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2020
Description: Futility is the seventh and last of a collection of songs based upon the poems of Wilfred Owen. It is not intended that this collection should be sung as a cycle. It may serve as part of a Remembrance Day event, or recital, or as a competition piece.

External websites:

Original text and translations

English text

Move him into the sun -
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields half-sown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds -
Woke once the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides
Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
- Oh what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

Retrieved from "https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Futility_(James_Crawford)&oldid=1537259"

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ==Music files==
 {{#Legend:}}
-*{{PostedDate|2020-01-02}} {{CPDLno|56496}} [[Media:Futility.pdf|{{pdf}}]] [[Media:Futility.mxl|{{XML}}]] [[Media:Futility.mscz|{{Muse}}]]
+*{{PostedDate| 2020-01-02}} {{CPDLno|56496}} [[Media:Futility.pdf|{{pdf}}]] [[Media:Futility.mxl|{{XML}}]] [[Media:Futility.mscz|{{Muse}}]]
 {{Editor|James Crawford|2020-01-02}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|4|81}}{{Copy|Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives}}
-:'''Edition notes:''' {{MXL}}
+:{{EdNotes|}}
 ==General Information==
-'''Title:''' ''Futility''<br>
+{{Title|''Futility''}}
 {{Composer|James Crawford}}
 {{Lyricist|Wilfred Owen}}
-{{Voicing|1|S}}<br>
+{{Voicing|1|S}}
 {{Genre|Secular|Art songs}}
 {{Language|English}}
 {{Instruments|Piano}}
 {{Pub|1|2020}}
+{{Descr|Futility is the seventh and last of a collection of songs based upon the poems of Wilfred Owen. It is not intended that this collection should be sung as a cycle. It may serve as part of a Remembrance Day event, or recital, or as a competition piece.}}
-'''Description:''' Futility is the seventh and last of a collection of songs based upon the poems of Wilfred Owen. It is not intended that this collection should be sung as a cycle.  It may serve as part of a Remembrance Day event, or recital, or as a competition piece.
+{{#ExtWeb:}}
-'''External websites:'''
 ==Original text and translations==
 {{Text|English|
-Move him into the sun
+Move him into the sun -
-gently its touch awoke him once.
+Gently its touch awoke him once,
-At home whispering of fields half sown
+At home, whispering of fields half-sown.
-Always it woke him even in France
+Always it woke him, even in France,
-Until this morning and this snow
+Until this morning and this snow.
-if anything might rouse him now the kind old sun will know
+If anything might rouse him now
-think how it wakes the seeds woke once the clays of a cold star
+The kind old sun will know.
-Are limbs so dear achieved are sides fullnerved too hard to stir?
+Think how it wakes the seeds -
-Was it for this? the clay grew tall?
+Woke once the clays of a cold star.
-Oh what made fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth's sleep at all?}}
+Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides
+Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?
+Was it for this the clay grew tall?
+- Oh what made fatuous sunbeams toil
+To break earth's sleep at all?}}
 [[Category:Sheet music]]
 [[Category:Modern music]]