A Song of Music (Hindemith, Paul)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1. Gay (Munter) - Slow (Langsam)
Composition Year	1940 March or April, Wells College, Aurora, NY
Genre Categories	Secular choruses; Choruses; Songs; For female chorus, strings; Scores featuring female chorus; Scores featuring string ensemble; For chorus with strings; English language; German language

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Editor	First edition
Publisher. Info.	Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne, 1958. Plate 39774.
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Publisher. Info.	London: Schott & Co., Ltd., 1941. Co-issue - New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc.
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Work Title	Lied von der Musik
Alternative. Title	Chorus for women's voices (SSA) with piano or string orchestra
Composer	Hindemith, Paul
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IPH 134
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1. Gay (Munter) - Slow (Langsam)
Text Incipit	Was Amsel, Esel, Grille singt
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1940 March or April, Wells College, Aurora, NY
First Performance.	1940 May, Aurora, NY
First Publication.	1941 - London: Schott
Librettist	George Tyler (1907–1998), with German translation by composer
Language	English, German
Average DurationAvg. Duration	2 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Modern
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	female chorus (SSA), strings (or piano)
External Links	Hindemith Foundation

The result of a class project at Wells College. Sometimes referred to by the first line of its text: "As donkeys bray and robbins sing."

-Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide

The librettist is most probably George Horsley Tyler, a classics professor at Wells College around 1940. At that time, one of his collegues at Wells College was the music professor/composer Nicolas Nabokov (1903-1978), who was in close contact with Hindemith. See Vincent Giroud: Nicolas Nabokov, a Life in Freedom (Oxford, 2015).