The fairies (Frank Edwin Ward)

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• (Posted 2023-12-15)  CPDL #78247:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-15).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 682 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The fairies
Composer: Frank Edwin Ward
Lyricist: Heinrich Heine , translated
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1914 W. H. Gray Co.
Description: Op. 11, No. 2

Original text and translations

English text

In the moonlight, thro’ the forest, on their nimble coursers bounding,
But just now I saw the fairies, heard their bells and clarions sounding.
And their impetuous milk-white horses golden antlers bore,
And keeping swiftly on, rushed by like wild swans through the night air
Gaily smiled the queen as past me she was riding,
Means it my new love shall prosper or forbodes some fatal tiding.