Silent noon

Song TitleSilent noon (Search)
Composer(s):Ralph Vaughan Williams
Author(s):Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Keyword(s) & Features: Beauty; Blooms; Blue; Couples; Dragonflies; Eyes; Fields; Flowers; Gleaming; Grass; Hands; Hearts; Hourglasses; Hours; Innocence; Landscapes; Lazy; Love; Motionless; Nature; Noon; Peace; Perfect; Romance; Rosy; Serene; Silence; Silver; Sky; Smiling; Songs; Sonnet; Together
First LineYour hands lie open in the long fresh grass (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1903 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=13967
Larger WorkThe House of Life, A Cycle of Six Sonnets (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b7/IMSLP129134-PMLP252236-Vaughan_Williams_-_The_House_Of_Life.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/2BnREFp1busw9hvIZhppSv
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/silent-noon-4/
Catalog DesignationThe House of Life, no. 2 (Search)
Range: C4 - Eb5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
Premiered ByEdith Clegg, soprano and Hamilton Harty, piano (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttp://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Vaughan-Williams-Ralph-House-of-Life-Archive/608823 (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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