Autumn Song (Arnold Johann Gantvoort)

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• (Posted 2023-10-17)  CPDL #76429:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-17).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 347 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Autumn Song
Composer: Arnold Johann Gantvoort
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 American Book Company
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Autumn winds are sighing,
Summer winds are dying,
Harvest time is nigh.
Cooler breezes quiv’ring
Through the pine groves shiv’ring,
Sweep the troubled moonlit sky.

See the fields how yellow!
Clusters, bright and mellow,
Gleam on every hill.
Nectar fills the fountains,
Crowns the sunny mountains,
Runs in every rill.

Now the lads are springing,
Maidens blithe are singing,
Swells the harvest strain.
Every field rejoices,
Thousand thankful voices,
Mingle on the plain.

Then the day reclineth
And the mild moon shineth,
Tabors sweetly sound.
And while they are sounding,
Fairy feet are bounding
O’er the fragrant moonlit ground,

“From the German”