Swan Creek (Geoff Allan)

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• (Posted 2024-03-01)  CPDL #79331:      (MP3)    

Editor: Geoff Allan (submitted 2024-03-01).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 369 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: A part song for four voices (SATB). The text is by an American poet, Williston Fish (1858 - 1939).

I used this poem for the slow section of my Concertino for Cor Anglais, Marimba and Strings (also here on YouTube).

I liked my tune and wrote this full setting.

General Information

Title: Swan Creek
Composer: Geoff Allan
Lyricist: Williston Fish
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2024
Description: A part song for four voices (SATB). The text is by an American poet, Williston Fish (1858 - 1939). I used this poem for the slow section of my Concertino for Cor Anglais, Marimba and Strings (on YouTube and https://imslp.org). I liked my tune and wrote this full setting.

External websites:

• YouTube score video https://youtu.be/hOYo7F0kStc
• Composers Website http://allans.org/uk

Original text and translations

English text

Stream, stream, stream,
Oh the willows by the stream;
The poplars and the willows
And the gravel all a-gleam!

Oh, oh, oh,
And the mourning-doves sang "Oh!"
From their hiding in the oak tops,
Looking on the world be-low.

Sky, sky, sky,
And all wide and round the sky,
With the white clouds rising, coming,
Coming, shining, drifting by.

Home, home, home,
And beyond the wood was home,
With the old road leading rea-dy
Where the open door said come.

Dream, dream, dream,
Now I wake not, but I dream
Of the old road and the ring-doves
And the willows by the stream.