Hush'd be the camps today
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky| Song Title | Hush'd be the camps today (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Celius Dougherty |
| Author(s): | Walt Whitman |
| Author Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Camps; Ceaseless; Celebrating; Charging; Closing; Clouds; Coffins; Commanders; Conflicts; Contrast: Life vs. Death; Dark; Death; Defeat; Draping; Earth; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Hearts; Heavy; Hushing; Life; Love; Memorials; Metaphor: Dark Events as Dark Clouds; Metaphor: Earth of Grave as Doors; Musing; Poets; Retiring; Singing; Sky; Soldiers; Souls; Stormy; Verses; Victory; Wars; Weapons; Worn |
| First Line | Hush'd be the camps today, (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1945 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26368 |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Realism; Romanticism; Transcendentalism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Celius-Dougherty-30-Art-Songs-in-Original-Keys-for-Medium-High-Voic-313695.html |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Range: | Bb3 - G5 (Search) |
| Original Key | Eb Major (Search) |
| Notes | Of “Hush’d be the camps today,” Dougherty said, “I value this song perhaps more than anything I have written.” (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | G Schirmer, “Celius Dougherty - 30 Art Songs in Original Keys” (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search) |