What voice of gladness (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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  • (Posted 2023-12-20)  CPDL #78404:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 365 kB   Copyright: Personal
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  • (Posted 2016-05-06)  CPDL #39567:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-05-06).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 102 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: With the double s and some other accidentals changed enharmonically as an aid to amateur singers.
  • (Posted 2016-05-06)  CPDL #39565:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-05-06).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 102 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: With Parry's original accidentals.

General Information

Title: What voice of gladness
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Robert Bridges

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A capella (keyboard reduction)

First published: 1897 in Six Modern Lyrics, no. 5
Description: The text is from Bridges' poem, Larks.

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

What voice of gladness, hark! in heaven is ringing?
From the sad fields the lark is upward winging.

High through the mournful mist that blots our day
Their songs betray them soaring in the grey.
See them! Nay, they in sunlight swim;
Above the furthest stain of cloud attain;
their hearts in music rain upon the plain.

Sweet birds, far out of sight
Your songs of pleasure
Dome us with joy as bright
As heaven's best azure.