As torrents in summer
Edward Elgar · words Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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- Voicing
- SATB
- Key
- No sharps or flats
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- quarter note = 120
- Length
- 45 bars
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano part
Range
Lowest D♯4Highest F5
Alto part
Range
Lowest A♯3Highest C5
Tenor part
Range
Lowest D3Highest F4
Bass part
Range
Lowest D♯2Highest A♯3
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The words
Verse 1
As torrents in summer, Half dried in their channels, Suddenly rise, suddenly rise, tho' the Sky is still cloudless, the sky is still cloudless, For rain, for rain has been fall ing, rain has been falling Far off at their fountains; So hearts that are fainting Grow full to o'erflowing, And they that behold it, they that behold it Marvel, and know not, marvel and know not That God, that God at their fountains, Far off has been raining, far off, far off has been raining!
Free to sing: Edward Elgar died in 1934 and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died in 1882.