A piper
Language:
English
A piper in the streets today
set up, and tuned, and started to play,
And away, away, away on the tide
of his music we started; on ev'ry side
Doors and windows were opened wide,
[And men left down their work and came,]1
And women with petticoats coloured [like]2 flame.
And little bare feet that were blue with cold
went dancing back to the age of gold,
And all the world went gay, went gay
For half an hour in the [streets]3 today.
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1 omitted by Gurney.
2 Gurney: "with"
3 O'Sullivan: "street"
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
, "The piper", published 1924. [mezzo-soprano and piano]
by Paul Frederic Bowles (1910-1999)
, "The piper"
by Gwyneth L. Brown
, "A piper", 1962. [medium voice and piano]
by Peter Charles Crossley-Holland (1916-)
, "A piper", published 1956. [high voice and piano]
by John Woods Duke (1899-1984)
, "A piper", published <<1940. [high voice and piano]
by Harold Greenhill
, "A piper", published 1936. [SS or SA chorus and piano]
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
, "A piper", published 1959. [voice and piano]
by Colin Hand (1929-)
, "A piper", published 1957. [unison voices and piano]
by Michael Head (1900-1976)
, "A piper", 1923, published 1923. [voice, piano, and flute obbligato]
by George Norman Peterkin (1886-?)
, "A piper", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
, "A piper", 1925, published 1925 [medium voice and optional piano], from Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, no. 2.
by William (Southcombe) Lloyd Webber (1914-1982)
, "A piper", published <<1951. [three-part women's chorus and piano]
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