A Song of Flight

A Song of Flight
	Copertina
Musica
Compositore	Edward Elgar
Tonalità	la bemolle maggiore
Tipo di composizione	Canzone
Numero d'opera	Op.31, n.2
Epoca di composizione	1895
Prima esecuzione	2 marzo 1900 Londra, St James's Hall; Harry Plunket Greene, baritono;
Pubblicazione	1900: Boosey & Co.
Organico	voce, pianoforte
Testo inglese
Autore	Christina Rossetti
	Manuale

A Song of Flight è una canzone scritta dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar nel 1895, come sua Op. 31, n. 2, con parole tratte da una poesia di Christina Rossetti.^[1]

La canzone fu eseguita per la prima volta dal baritono irlandese Harry Plunket Greene nella St. James's Hall il 2 marzo 1900, insieme a After, Op. 31, n. 1.^[1]

Versi

A SONG OF FLIGHT

While we slumber and sleep

The sun leaps up from the deep.

Daylight born at the leap!

Rapid, dominant, free,

Athirst to bathe in the uttermost sea.

While we linger at play,

If the year would stand at May!

Winds are up and away

Over land, over sea,

To their goal wherever their goal may be.

It is time to arise

To race for the promised prize,

The Sun flies, the Wind flies.

We are strong, we are free,

And home lies beyond the stars and the sea.

Note

^ ^a ^b Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar, Third, Oxford University Press, 1987, p. 342, ISBN 0-19-284017-7.

Bibliografia

Banfield, Stephen, Sensibility and English Song: Critical studies of the early 20th century (Cambridge University Press, 1985) ISBN 0-521-37944-X

Collegamenti esterni

(EN) Spartiti liberi di A Song of Flight, in International Music Score Library Project, Project Petrucci LLC.

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 307214683

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[Kennedy-1] Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar, Third, Oxford University Press, 1987, p. 342, ISBN 0-19-284017-7.

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