"Who has seen the wind?" [Robin Milford]

"Who has seen the wind?" [Robin Milford]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Part of: "The Passing Year or Rain, Wind and Sunshine"

Milford, Robin; music (British, 1903-1959)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1936 [copyright]

London: Oxford University Press

genre: cantata|children's music|choral music|song

chorus: children's two-part chorus

instrumentation: flute|strings|double bass|piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: voice

other version 1 - chorus: children's unison chorus

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one flat

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"

Place in the larger work: The sixth song of eleven in a cantata called "Rain, Wind, and Sunshine," which includes 1. "Leisure" (W.H. Davies); 2. "Weathers" (Thomas Hardy); 3. "Cuckoo Song" (Traditional); 4. "Mr. John Peel passes by" (piano duet); 5. "The Birds that sing on Autumn Eves" (Robert Bridges); 6. "Who has seen the wind?" (Christina Rossetti); 7. "Winter" (Tennyson); 8. "Midwinter" (Christina Rossetti); 9. "Mr. Ben Jonson's Pleasure" (piano duet); 10. "April 1885" (Robert Bridges); 11. "Spring" (Thomas Nashe).

Composition history: "Words reprinted by kind permission of Messrs Macmillan & Co., Ltd."

Tempo markings: "Allegretto"; quarter note = 112 [for cantata]. "At a moderate pace" [for unison song]

Performance instructions: For the cantata: "The orchestra employed is Flute, Strings with optional Double Bass, and Piano (or the work may be performed with Piano only)."

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 22-24) [cantata]; 2 pages [unison song]

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4888

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Cataloguer: Jacob Spence, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Alberta Library, Alberta

musical score for unison voice: Milford, Robin. "Who Has seen the wind?." A Third Sixty Songs for Children, edited by Herbert Wiseman and Sydney Northcote, Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 49-50. New York Public Library, New York.

Record: CRM-whohasseen-milford

File(s): CRM-whohasseen-milford.pdf; CRM-whohasseen-milford-unisson.pdf

"Copyright 1936, by the Oxford University Press, London."

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