Snow song (Georg Schumann)
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- (Posted 2023-12-06) CPDL #77897:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-06). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 441 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Snow song
Composer: Georg Schumann
Lyricist: Frank Dempster Sherman
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1915 Silver, Burdett and Company
Description: Commissioned for a collection of part-songs published in the United States for use by school choirs.
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Original text and translations
English text
Over valley, over hill,
Hark! the shepherd piping Shrill!
Driving all the white flocks forth
From the far folds of the North.
Weird melodies you play,
Following your flocks that go
Across the world today.
Blow, wind!
How they hurry, how they crowd
When they hear the music loud!
Grove and land and meadows full
Sparkle with their shining wool.
Until the forests ring:
Teach the eaves the tunes you know,
And make the chimney sing!
Blow, wind!
Hither, hither, up and down,
Every highway of the town,
Huddling close, the white flocks all
Gather at the shepherd’s call.
Upon your pipes of joy;
All your sheep are flakes of snow
And you their shepherd boy!
Blow, wind!