1914- Choral Edition - Crawford, James

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"This choral arrangement is based upon the solo song of the same name and uses the text of the poem by Wilfred Owen."

⌛ Period → 20th Century ◈ Genre → Art Song

♯ Key F minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATBB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate (Grade 4-5)

↕ Range A0 – B-5

♩ Tempo larghetto (60)

◷ Duration ~2 min 48 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 42

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments SATB, Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 62702

Editor James Crawford

Posted 2021-02-06

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

E-4 – B-5

Alto

B-3 – D5

Tenor

C3 – B-4

Baritone

F2 – E-4

Piano

A0 – F4

¶Lyrics / Text

War broke: and now the Winter of the world With perishing great darkness closes in. The foul tornado, centred at Berlin, Is over all the width of Europe whirled, Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furled Are all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now begin Famines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin. The grain of human Autumn rots, down-hurled. For after Spring had bloomed in early Greece, And Summer blazed her glory out with Rome, An Autumn softly fell, a harvest home, A slow grand age, and rich with all increase. But now, for us, wild winter, and the need Of sowings for new Spring, and blood for seed.