"The Wind" [Grace Wilbur Conant]

"The Wind" [Grace Wilbur Conant]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Conant, Grace Wilbur; music (American, 1858-1948)

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

1905 [publication] [copyright]; 1914 [publication]; 1915 [publication] [copyright]

Boston, Chicago: The Pilgrim Press; Philadelphia: The Westminster Press

genre: song|children's music

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

female composer

English

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

Notes about the text: In the lyrics, lines 7 and 3 of the poem were interchanged.

Tempo markings: "Andante con moto"

Notes: The setting is printed below a biblical epigraph: "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth" (John 3:8). From a collection called "Songs For Little People: For Use in the Sunday-School, the Kindergarten, and the Home," first published in 1905. The collection includes an introduction by Lucy Wheelock and a foreword by editors Frances Weld Danielson and Grace Wilbur Conant. A new edition of the collection was published 10 years later, which included the addition of thirty-six new and old songs.

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 1905

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 and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Conant, Grace Wilbur. "The Wind." Songs for little people: For use in the Sunday-School, the Kindergarten, and the Home, edited by Frances Weld Danielson and Grace Wilbur Conant, 2nd ed. Pilgrim Press, 1915, p. 104, no. 123. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/songspe00dani. Accessed 19 March 2018.

Record: CRM-whohasseen-conant

File(s): CRM-whohasseen-conant.jpg

"Copyright, 1905, by Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society"

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