An Autumn song (Ciro Pinsuti)
Music files
| ICON | SOURCE |
|---|---|
 |
|
 |
Midi |
 |
Mp3 |
 |
MusicXML |
 |
Capella |
 |
File details |
 |
Help |
- (Posted 2019-08-10) CPDL #55019:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-08-10). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 123 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: An Autumn song
Composer: Ciro Pinsuti
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 5, no. 175
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
English 1 O sad sweet voice of the golden fall, Thou bearest a message from heaven to all, And the spirits of purity, health, and love, Seem wafted with thee from a source above! From the trees of my grove with a musical sway, They swirl all the dank dead leaves away! So sin and its sorrow in psalms depart, 'Mid the breathings of grace from a penitent's heart!
2 It seemed so cruel to strip and to strew Those pomps in their saffron and scarlet hue, But we know how their festering blight would cling, And poison the blessing of summer and spring! 'Tis thus that our merciful Father destroys The gloss and the glare of corrupting joys, And tears from the heart all glittering things Which would fetter to earth her aspiring wings!
text[[Category:English
1 O sad sweet voice of the golden fall, Thou bearest a message from heaven to all, And the spirits of purity, health, and love, Seem wafted with thee from a source above! From the trees of my grove with a musical sway, They swirl all the dank dead leaves away! So sin and its sorrow in psalms depart, 'Mid the breathings of grace from a penitent's heart!
2 It seemed so cruel to strip and to strew Those pomps in their saffron and scarlet hue, But we know how their festering blight would cling, And poison the blessing of summer and spring! 'Tis thus that our merciful Father destroys The gloss and the glare of corrupting joys, And tears from the heart all glittering things Which would fetter to earth her aspiring wings!
texts]]