A dream of spring

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Song TitleA dream of spring (Search)
Composer(s):Sir Granville Bantock
Author(s):L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng (after Cen Shen (AKA Ts'en Shen, Ts'en Ts'an, or Cen Jiazhou))
Author Underrepresented GroupAsian; POC (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Breath; Chambers; Chiang (Yangtze River); Chiang Nan (Jiangnan); Chinese; Creeping; Distance; Dreams; Faces; Gloom; Heads; Hearts; Hundreds; Invitations; Lingering; Miles; Moments; Moonlit; Night; Personification: Spring's Breath; Pillows; Seas; Souls; Spaces; Spring; Touching; Wandering; Whispering; Winging
First LineLast night within my chamber's gloom (Search)
Year of composition 1919 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=48635
Larger WorkFive Songs from the Chinese Poets (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b3/IMSLP48520-SIBLEY1802.8661.e7a6-39087011968387score.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPnSr4yvO8
Catalog DesignationOp. 2, no. 2 (Search)
Range: E4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyA minor (Search)
Dedicated ToEleanor M. V. Finegan (Search)
NotesFrom the Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, Cen Shen (Ts'en Shen, Ts'en Ts'an, Cen Jiazhou) (Search)
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