Winter (Daniel Belknap)

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• (Posted 2016-09-26)  CPDL #41249:   

Editor: Aaron Giles (submitted 2016-09-26).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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• (Posted 2016-04-28)  CPDL #39434:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-28).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 55 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• (Posted 2016-04-27)  CPDL #39433:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-27).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

General Information

Title: Winter
First Line: Now clouds the wintry skies deform
Composer: Daniel Belknap
Lyricist: David Humphreys

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: Words adapted from David Humphreys, 1790, entitled American Winter. Humphreys' poem is not metrical; Belknap has edited it to meter 88. 88. (L. M.).

External websites:

• Griswold, Rufus W. 1856. Poets and Poetry of America, Sixteenth Edition, 659 pp. Philadelphia: Parry and McMillan. David Humphreys, pp. 55-56.

Original text and translations

English text David Humphreys, 1790 Then doubling clouds the wintry skies deform, And, wrapped in vapor, comes the roaring storm; With snows surcharged, from tops of mountains sails, Loads leafless trees, and fills the whitened vales. (30 more lines)

Daniel Belknap, 1800 Now clouds the wintry skies deform, In sullen vengeance roars the storm; The snow from which yon mountain falls Loads leafless trees, and fills the vales.