Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending

Subject: Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending
From: stallion
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 06:58 PM

Martin wants the words for the afore mentioned song, seems like a vaughn williams melody to another geezers poem. Google brings up numerous places i can buy it, but, why spend money when there is mudcat!
cheers all
Peter

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending
From: Ron Davies
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 07:00 PM

It's hard to believe any text could do justice to this glorious piece.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 07:16 PM

Vaughan Williams' piece was in part inspired by George Meredith's verses of the same name (an extract from which was quoted as a preface to the published work), but it was emphatically not a setting of them.

For the poem, see (for example; it is easily found on the internet in various places):

http://www.george-macdonald.com/meredith/lark_ascending.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 07:24 PM

There's a MIDI of the Ralph Vaughan Williams piece here (click).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending
From: Saro
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:12 AM

There is a song called "The Lark Above the Downs" which is by Mick Ryan, and was part of his folk opera "A Day's Work". Was it perhaps this song that you are thinking of - I've never heard of words to The Lark Ascending. There again, maybe you are looking for "TheLark in the Clear Air"...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 01:29 AM

Lark Ascending is one of my favorite short pieces. It can calm me down after just about any negative experience.

But I'd never want to know any words for it!! To hear that glorious piece and have mere words automatically run in my head would be simply horrid. Fred Waring put words to the Nutcracker Suite and now, 60 years later, I can't hear that music without the saccharine words attaching itself to the sounds.

Onward and upward,

Art

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Lark Ascending
From: Mr Fox
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 12:18 PM

The second theme of 'The Lark Ascending' is very similar to the traditional 'The Cutty Wren'