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:'''Edition notes:''' The music may be freely performed etc. but the poem is copyright University of Sydney (Australia). When I spoke to them about it, they seemed pretty relaxed about non-commercial use. {{MXL}} | :'''Edition notes:''' The music may be freely performed etc. but the poem is copyright University of Sydney (Australia). When I spoke to them about it, they seemed pretty relaxed about non-commercial use. {{MXL}} |
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- Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2020-01-31). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 121 kB Copyright: CC BY NC SA
- Edition notes: The music may be freely performed etc. but the poem is copyright University of Sydney (Australia). When I spoke to them about it, they seemed pretty relaxed about non-commercial use. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Green Singer
Composer: Mark Chapman
Lyricist: John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942)create page
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: Never published
Description: The setting mimics the alternating moods of the poem, and may instead be performed SSA (the change of clef would be trivial in MuseScore, which is free) or even SSBar. Tenors finding the low As uncomfortable can sing Es instead, although of course there should still be some voices on the As too.
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Original text and translations
Please note that this text is © University of Sydney Library and is not to be used for commercial purposes without permission https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/pages/contact-us
English text
ALL singers have shadows
that follow like fears,
But I know a singer
who never saw tears:
A gay love—a green love—
delightsome! divine!
The Spring is that singer—
an old love of mine!
All players have shadows
and into the play
Old sorrows will saunter—
old sorrows will stay.
But here is a player
whose speech is divine!
The Spring is that player—
an old love of mine!
All singers grow heavy:
the hours as they run
Bite up all the blossoms,
suck up all the sun.
But I know a singer,
delightsome! divine!
The gay love—the green love—
an old love of mine!