August
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky| Song Title | August (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Charles Ives |
| Author(s): | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (after Folgóre da San Gimignano) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Alpine; Apart; August; Beasts; Blessings; Cheer; Clear; Comfort; Connection to Nature; Contentment; Dwellings; Entreating; Evening; Feeding; Flowing; Freedom; Hands; Home; Horses; Houses; Italy; Miles; Morning; Mountains; Mounting; Nature; Noon; Open; Parting; Peace; Perception; Possessing; Purses; Ridges; Rivers; Saddles; Scouring; Seas; Sedate; Separate; Shade; Smooth; Solitude; Stars; Thirty; Towers; Treading; Tuscan; Tuscany; Valleys; Water; Wind; Wishing; Youth |
| First Line | For August, be your dwelling thirty towers (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1920 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=18351 |
| Larger Work | From Early Italian Poets (Search) |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Victorian (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://imslp.org/wiki/114_Songs_(Ives,_Charles) |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/3Qs63cIhi6FLsGvR8YYBBo |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | S. 216 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Medium voice |
| Range: | C4 - E5 (Search) |
| Premiered By | David Barron, baritone, and Neely Bruce, piano, 1969 (Search) |
| Notes | The poem is a translation of a sonnet by 14th-century Italian poet Folgore da San Gimignano (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | Peermusic Classical, "Charles Ives: 114 Songs" (Search) |
| Sources Cited | https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ivescatalogue (Search) |
| Contributor | AL (Search) |