Genre Categories | Glees; For 4 voices; For unaccompanied voices; |
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Work Title | List! For the Breeze |
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Alternative. Title | Glee for Men's Voices (ATTB) |
Composer | Goss, John |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IJG 4 |
Key | F major |
First Performance. | 1824 or earlier. |
Librettist | John Bowring (1792-1872) appears to have written these words, excerpted from his free translation of a Spanish poem, "Fertiliza tu vega". (Bowring called it, "She Comes to Gather Flowers.") The 1902 Novello score does not cite a librettist, stating merely, "Words from the Spanish." Bowring's text, together with the anonymous original, appeared in The London Magazine of June 1823 (pp. 605-606). Goss's composition was first performed no later than February 1824. |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | ATTB, optional piano |
List ! for the breeze on wing serene
Through the light foliage sails ;
Hidden amidst the forest green
Warble the nightingales, . . .
Paul Hillier's modern edition is for SATB in G major.
(English Romantic Partsongs. London: Oxford (1986).)