How stands the glass around? (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2017-11-20). Score information: A4, 1 page, 67 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed to G minor. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2007-12-02). Score information: A4, 2 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: How stands the glass around?
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: A favourite song of General Wolfe, allegedly sung by him at Québec the night before his death. But the legend relies on an inexact reading of the description in Krifft's "Siege of Québec, a sonata" (c. 1797): "A favorite song of General Wolfe's & sung the evening before the engagement wherein he was killed". The present harmonization is that of Krifft, who completed "The siege of Quebec" after the majority had been composed by Kotzwara, before his untimely death from erotic asphyxiation (Kotwara's "Battle of Prague" was a favourite of Jane Austen). The song appears first in a ballad opera of 1729 called "The Patron" (I have not seen this source) and bears more than a passing resemblance to an Act Tune by Jeremiah Clarke associated with the play "A wife for any man", 1696.
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Original text and translations
English text 1. |
German translation Das Glas steht herum? |