The lake isle of Innisfree - Bird, Peter

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"Stanzas 1 & 2 are introduced by soloist(s) and echoed by chorus; stanza 3 is choral. To reflect the different moods and rhythms of these stanzas, the time signature changes from 3/4 to 2/2 to 5/4, but the length of each bar remains the same, giving a slow underbeat of 24/minute. Length 5 minutes."

◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 5/8

♬ Voicing → SATB|add=with SAT solos

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range C2 – C6

♩ Tempo 100

◷ Duration ~4 min 40 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 124

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments Piano

Pages 15

CPDL # 15068

Editor Peter Bird

Posted 2007-09-21

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

C4 – G5

ALTO

A3 – C5

TENOR

C3 – G4

BASS

F2 – D4

PIANO

C2 – F4

¶Lyrics / Text

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.