"Who has seen the wind?" [Alys E. Bentley]

"Who has seen the wind?" [Alys E. Bentley]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Bentley, Alys Eliza; music (American, 1868-1951)

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

Loomis, Harvey Worthington; piano accompaniment (American, 1865-1930)

1907 [copyright]; 1912 [publication] [copyright]

New York, Chicago: Laidlaw Brothers Incorporated; New York: The A.S. Barnes Company

genre: song|children's music

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: four flats

initial time signature: 3/4

other version 1 - solo: voice

other version 1 - chorus: children's unison chorus

other version 1 - instrumentation: a cappella

other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: three sharps

origin: United States

female composer|male arranger

English

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

Notes about the text: The accompanied song, published in "Play Song" (1912), is a setting of stanza 2 only. No lyrics are included in the unaccompanied song published in "The Song Primer" (1907)

Tempo markings: "Andante con moto"

Performance instructions: The unaccompanied song with no lyrics, published in "The Song Primer" for teachers (1907), includes the following teaching directions: "Call on different children to sing the first measure, the fifth measure. Let different children sing measures of their own choosing, other children finding the measures as sung. Now let the teacher sing any two measures, e.g., the first and last, the children finding and pointing to the same. Call on different children to sing measures indicated by number by the teacher."

Recordings: "Who has seen the wind." Performance by Victor orchestra with Miss Alys Bentley, recorded in Camden, New Jersey. Victor matrix B-14488: The wind / Victor Orchestra, 19 February 1914. ("Victor matrix B-14488")

Notes: The unaccompanied song, with no lyrics, is featured in section "Lessons on the Songs" in the collection called "The Song Primer" (1907), a teacher's handbook for grades 1 to 4.

Format 1: musical score

2 pages [in "Play Song"]; 1 page [in "The Song Primer"]

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4873

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

Other data reference(s): "Victor matrix B-14488. The wind / Victor Orchestra." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2020. Web. Accessed 23 June 2020.

Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: “Who has seen the wind?.” Play Songs, The A.S. Barnes Company, 1912, pp. 6-7. Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, http://hdl.handle.net/1802/24746. Accessed 19 March 2018

musical score with no lyrics: “Who has seen the wind?.” The Song Primer, Laidlaw Brothers Incorporated; A.S. Barnes Company, 1907, p. 10. Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, http://hdl.handle.net/1802/25369. Accessed 3 March 2018.

Record: CRM-whohasseen-bentley

File(s): CRM-whohasseen-bentley.pdf; CRM-whohasseen-bentley-nolyrics.pdf

"Copyright, 1907, by A. S. Barnes & Company"; "Copyright, 1912, by The A. S. Barnes Company"

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