Introduction
Language:
English
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a lamb."
So I piped with merry chear.
"Piper, pipe that song again."
So I piped: he wept to hear.
"Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
Sing thy songs of happy chear."
So I sang the same again,
While he wept with joy to hear.
"Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book, that all may read."
So he vanished from my sight;
And I pluck'd a hollow reed.
And I made a rural pen,
And I stain'd the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
Input by Ted Perry
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 Jean Mary Anderson (1939-)
, "Reeds of Innocence", 1997, from Two Songs for Alto & Organ, no. 1. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Phillip Thomas Bezanson (1916-1975)
, "The piper", published 1959, from Songs of Innocence, no. 1. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by William Bolcom (1938-)
, "Introduction", 1956-81 [soloists, madrigal group, chorus, orchestra], from Songs of Innocence, no. 1. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Rutland Boughton (1878-1960)
, "Piper's Song", op. 34b no. 1, published c1912. [two-part song for treble voices] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Grace Bell Branning (1912-)
, "Piping down the Valleys Wild" ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by (William) Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", published c1929. [unison song with piano] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by George Frederick Broadhead (1883-?)
, "The piper", published 1936. [unison song] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Christopher Roland Brown (1943-)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", 1962 [soprano, clarinet and piano], from Three Songs of Innocence, no. 1. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Mary Grant Carmichael (1851-1935)
, "Introduction to the Songs of Innocence", published 1876. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Stephen Chatman (1950-)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", 1984 [SATB choir and oboe (or flute, or violin, or clarinet)], from There is sweet music here, no. 4. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Grace (Cotton) Clough-Leighter (1885-)
, "The piper", published c1914. [three-part song for women's voices with piano acc.] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Dulcie Cohen
, "Piping down the valleys wild", published c1934. [two-part song for women's voices with piano acc.] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906-2005)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", 1956, published 1960 [soprano, clarinet in A, piano], from Three Songs of Innocence, no. 1. ![[setting text verified]](/images/ball.green.gif)
by Felix Corbett (1861-1940)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", published 1889. [high voice, piano] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", 1917. [high voice, piano] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by John Charlton Crawford (1931-)
, "Introd. (Piping down the valleys wild)", published 1965 [soprano, piano], from Songs of Innocence, no. 1. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Geoffrey Gwyther
, "Piping down the valleys wild", published 1917 [medium voice and piano], from Seven Poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence", no. 1, London, The Poetry Bookshop ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by Paul A. Irby
, "The piper", published c1928 [voice and piano], from Three Songs of Innocence, no. 3, London, Wellington Music Publ. Co. ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by (John) Michael Jacques (1944-)
, "The piper", 1966 [soprano voices and piano with optional accompaniment for strings, two clarinets, and piano], from Six Songs of Innocence, no. 1. ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by (Thomas) Timothy Lenk (1952-)
, "Introduction (Piping down the valleys wild)", c1977 [tenor, bass-baritone, flute (piccolo), clarinet, bass clarinet, and violin], from Songs of Innocence and Experience, no. 1. ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by Franco Leoni (1864-1949)
, "The happy piper", published 1923 [voice and piano], from Songs of the Happy Piper: Five Little Songs, no. 1, London, J. H. Larway ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by Mary Alice Lippincott (1919-)
, "The piper", <<1947, published c1950 [medium voice and piano], Northbrook, IL, Opus Music ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by Oskar Morawetz (1917-)
, "Piping down the valleys" ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Gardner Read (1913-)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", op. 76 no. 3, published 1950. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Arthur Shepherd (1880-1958)
, "The piper", alternate title: "Reeds of Innocence", published c1916 [voice and piano], Boston, C. C. Birchard ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948-)
, "Introduction", op. 132 no. 1 (2001) [speaker and tape], from The Innocence of Experience, no. 1. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", published 1894 [voice and piano], from Five Songs of Innocence (formerly Four Songs of Innocence), no. 5, London, Stanley Lucas & Co. ![[setting text needs to be verified]](/images/ball.red.gif)
by David Evan Thomas (1958-)
, "Piping down the valleys wild", 2004. [medium voice, piano] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
, "The piper", 1957, published 1958 [voice and oboe], from Ten Blake Songs, no. 3. ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
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(Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov)
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