Starlit is night-time (Joseph Joachim Raff)

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• (Posted 2020-05-16)  CPDL #58643:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-05-16).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In English translation. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Starlit is night-time
Composer: Joseph Joachim Raff
Lyricist: Franz Alfred Muth

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1884 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 17, no. 487
Description: Op.198, no.5

Original text and translations

English translation Starlit is night-time, tender and deep, Everywhere round us children asleep. Distant, so distant, sorrow and tears, All the land over starlit appears. Yea, not a grief but grows like a star, Out of the distance shining afar. Translation by John Troutbeck

German text Nacht voller Sterne Dunkel und lind, Nahe und ferne Schlummert jed' Kind. Ferne, so ferne Klage und Leid, Überall Sterne Über der Haid'. Zur einem Sterne Ward ja jed' Leid -- Drum aus der Ferne Schimmert's so weit.