Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Jacquelyn Matava| Song Title | Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Benjamin Britten |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | Edith Sitwell |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Allegory; Allusion: Bible; Allusion: Cain and Abel; Bait; Bearing; Bears; Beasts; Beating; Beats; Black; Blind; Blood; Brains; Breeding; Brows; Caesars; Cain; Changing; Children; Christ; Crosses; Crowns; Crucifixion; Dark; Day; Death; Deep; Dives; Down; Dying; Faint; Falling; Feet; Fields; Firmament; Flesh; Flowing; God; Gold; Greed; Hammers; Hares; Hearts; Helpless; Hope; Humanity; Humans; Hunting; Impious; Innocent; Jesus; Keepers; Last; Laurels; Lazarus; Leaping; Light; Loss; Loving; Lying; Men; Mercy; Metaphor: Greed as Worm; Murder; Murderers; Murdering; Nailing; Nails; Night; Nurturing; Pain; Potter's Fields; Pulling; Pulses; Rain; Repentance; Sad; Sides; Small; Sores; Sounding; Sounds; Sparks; Starving; Still; Streaming; Tears; The Blitz; Thirsting; Tombs; Trees; Violence; Voices; Wars; Weeping; World; World War II; Worms; Wounded; Wounds |
| First Line | Still falls the Rain (Search) |
| Average Duration | 11:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1954 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://poetryarchive.org/poem/still-falls-rain/ |
| Larger Work | Five Canticles (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/2P9wnHFdiBESbK1E78CiZH?si=rMDYBnEmT7ibpBvPqYGgNg |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 55 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Tenor |
| Range: | C3 - G4 (Search) |
| Original Key | Bb Major (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Noel Mewton-Wood (Search) |
| Premiered By | Peter Pears (Search) |
| Notes | Premiered January 28, 1955, Wigmore Hall, London; Peter Pears, tenor; Dennis Brain, horn; Britten, piano (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Benjamin-Britten-Canticle-III-Still-Falls-the-Rain/781 (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | piano and French horn (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM , James Allen (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | Georgia Southern University (Search) |