#WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS STOLEN CHILD FULL#
#WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS STOLEN CHILD DOWNLOAD#

#WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS STOLEN CHILD FULL#

The Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was highly regarded in both Ireland and Britain, and was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival.įor the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.įor the world's more full of weeping than he can understand. Photograph: Library of Congress (LC-DIG-ggbain-00731)

#WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS STOLEN CHILD DOWNLOAD#

You can download the Hickox recording as an MP3 track from Amazon: The 1912 version requires the following forces: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B♭, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F, harp, 1st violins, 2nd violins, violas, cellos, double basses, SATB chorus.įor a more immediate musical experience, there is the wonderful 1986 Richard Hickox recording with the Sinfonia Chorus, the BBC Northern Singers and the Northern Sinfonia of England. If your choir is interested in recording 'The Stolen Child' for this website, please use our Feedback page to contact Dan Rootham. The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats The Stolen Child In 24 All-Star Readers on the Words That Rock Their Worlds, Matt Dillon recalls how he first heard Yeats' 'The Stolen Child'recited by a busker on Grafton Street in Dublin. Buy a discounted Paperback of A Study Guide for William. We are looking for a choral group to record a live performance, and until then we are providing this synthesised recording without words. Booktopia has A Study Guide for William Butler Yeatss the Stolen Child by Cengage Learning Gale. On the opening page of 'The Stolen Child' (1912 version) Live performance We are very grateful to St John's College for allowing us to consult the original autograph manuscript, thus enabling us to reconcile the 19 versions of this work.ĭedication to the composer's wife (RMR) and son (JStJR) 7 Comments by emilyardagh in Uncategorized Tags: Poetry, william butler yeats Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats There we’ve hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries. The additional bars in the 1912 orchestral version are actually rest bars for the chorus, and the conductor can choose to omit these extra bars if the piece is performed as the 1911 version with piano accompaniment only.īy permission of the Master and Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge The bar numbering in the vocal score has been altered so as to match the orchestral version.

Our new edition of the vocal score includes these missing bars which are indicated by brackets in the vocal score. The 1912 orchestral version is 4 bars longer than the original 1911 score for SATB & piano (bars 96-97 and 137-138). But the good news is that typesetting is now complete, so we hope to publish both versions during 2017. The sheet music for this work is not yet back in print. The lyrics (from the poem by W B Yeats) are shown on the right. Rootham dedicated the 1912 version to his wife Rosamond and his young son Jasper. Opus 38 ' The Stolen Child' exists in two versions: the original 1911 setting for SATB and piano, and the 1912 setting for chorus and orchestra.

William butler yeats stolen child