untitled [setting of "'Who has seen the wind?'"] [arr. anonymous, music D. Corner]

untitled [setting of "'Who has seen the wind?'"] [arr. anonymous, music D. Corner]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Corner, David Gregor; music (German, 1585-1648)

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

Anonymous; arrangement

1928 [publication]

Winchester: Warren and Son

genre: hymn|song|children's music

chorus: congregational singing

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 6/8

origin: Germany

male composer

English

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

Composition history: "(By permission of Macmillan & Co.)"

Performance instructions: "(Irregular.)"

Notes: Text adapted to a 1631 work by D. Corner, a tune entitled "Spiritus" (Gooch 4870). This song was published in the "Winchester Hymn Supplement", 1928 edition by Warren & Son, Winchester. The first of two tunes to choose from. The attempt by the Winchester Diocesan Church Music Committee to offer a small collection of hymns and tunes [divided in 3 parts: (1) for adults; (2) for older children; (3) for young children ("New Music. Songs" p. 184)] in 1923 was such a large success that it justified a more substantial volume. The 1928 publication includes "123 hymns and 14 carols together with Merbecke's Communion Service, as edited by E.G.P. Wyatt and Royle Shore." (Harding, p. 152)

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4870

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): Harding, H. A. "Church and Organ Music. Royal College of Organists." The Musical Times,
vol. 70, no. 1032, 1 Feb. 1929, pp. 142-144, 152-153. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/917499.
"New Music. Songs." The Musical Times, vol. 64, no. 961, 1 Mar. 1923, pp. 183-185. JSTOR.

Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Winchester Hymn Supplement, with Tunes. Warren & Son, Winchester, 1928, p. 168, no. 139.

Record: CRM-whohasseen-anonymous-corner

File(s): CRM-whohasseen-anonymous-corner.jpg

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