Daffodils [SATB chorus & piano] - SCORE

Daffodils
for SATB chorus & piano
[2017, rev. 2021]

text by William Wordsworth
music by E.K.R. Hammell

Honourable Mention: Grand Philharmonic Choir Composition Competition 2021

 

Premiered 6 Mar 2022 (online) by Babεl Chorus, Elaine Choi, artistic director. Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Additional known performances:

• 19 May 2022 | Amabilè Chamber Singers, dir. Ruth Ann Read Clay | Charlottetown PE Canada

 

preview score:

EH0003A - Daffodils - PDF score preview

 

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duration:

4 min.

difficulty:

Easy

program notes:

This mixed choir setting of William Wordsworth’s famous poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) is meant to capture the pure, innocent feeling of contentedness and wonder arising from a special moment in one’s life.

 

text:

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the like, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed — and gazed — but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

(ca. 1805)

 

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