"Who Has Seen the Wind?" [arr. Margaret Mealy, Norman Mealy, music unknown composer]

"Who Has Seen the Wind?" [arr. Margaret Mealy, Norman Mealy, music unknown composer]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Unknown; music (melody from "Zion's Harp")

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

Mealy, Margaret; arrangement (American, 1922-2020). Mealy, Norman; arrangement (American, 1923-1987)

1961 [publication]

Greenwich: Seabury Press

genre: song|children's music

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

female arranger|male arranger

English

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

Tempo markings: half note = 1 beat.

Performance instructions: "Thoughtfully." "Use only the second stanza with smaller children, or let them sing the melody on 'oo' to suggest the wind. A few children can be trees,' others, running by on tiptoe or without shoes, can be the 'wind.'" This paragraph is followed by an illustration by Karla Kuskin of three trees blowing in the wind.

Notes: Melody from "Zion's Harp". Ninety third song in the collection "Sing for Joy: A Songbook for Young Children" by Norman and Margaret Mealy published by Seabury Press in 1961, illustrated by Karla Kuskin. "There are songs to sing at home, at church, and at church school ... some of the songs are for serious and thoughtful moments; others for fun and activity." (Record for "Sing for Joy")

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4886, 4887

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

Other data reference(s): Record for "Sing for Joy: A Songbook for Young Children." WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/853995223. Accessed 4 Sep. 2020.

Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Mealy, Norman, and Margaret Mealy. “Who Has Seen the Wind?.” Sing for Joy: A Songbook for Young Children, Seabury Press, 1961, p. 73. McMaster University Library, Hamilton.

Record: CRM-whohasseen-mealy

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