Hail! bright Spring-time - Henry Charles Banister

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⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SSATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 88

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments SSATB

Pages 16

CPDL # 75468

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-09-18

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

S 1

D4 – G5

S 2

C#4 – D5

G3 – B4

D3 – F#4

G2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

Hail! bright Springtime, When all the land is ringing With roundelays of laughing mirth, And sunshine pricks the sluggard earth: Oh! bright Springtime, When all the land is ringing. O’er spreading heath We’ll trip a gladsome measure: Each swain shall lead his own true love, And through the mazy dances move O’er springy heath, And trip a gladsome measure. The glorious sun Doth flood the hills with gladness: The linnet sings upon the thorn, The hunter winds the cheery horn All in the sun That floods the hills with gladness. You lovelorn swain, By shady river straying, Tells every flower and every reed How little doth his lady heed: Ah! lovelorn swain, By shady river straying. Ye nymphs and youths, I beg ye’ll pay no heeding To hunter’s horn, or sighing swain But laugh, and trip it o’er again: Oh! nymphs and youths, I trow ye’ll pay for heeding.