Hark! hark! the soft bugle - Wood, Charles

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"Another example of how Wood is inspired by a dreadful text to compose wonderful music."

⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key B- major

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – F5

¶ Language → English

Measures 86

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 57857

Editor Andrew Sims

Posted 2020-04-05

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

C4 – F5

G3 – D5

E3 – F4

F2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

Hark! hark! the soft bugle sounds over the wood, And thrills in the silence of even, Till faint, and more faint, in the far solitude, It dies on the portals of heaven! But echo springs up from her home in the rock, And seizes the perishing strain; And sends the gay challenge, with shadowy mock, From mountain to mountain again, And again, From mountain to mountain again! Oh. thus let my love, like a sound of delight, Be around thee while shines the glad day, And leave thee, unpain'd, in the silence of night, And die like sweet music away. And when hope, with her warm light, thy glancing eye fills, Oh say, "Like that echoing strain, Though the song of his love has died o'er the hills, It will waken in heaven again, And again, It will waken in heaven again."