The Blue Bird
Charles Villiers Stanford · words Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.
- Voicing
- SATB
- Key
- E♭ minor
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- quarter note = 80
- 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 B4
Alto part
Range
Lowest B♭3Highest G♭4
Tenor part
Range
Lowest D3Highest E♭4
Bass part
Range
Lowest E2Highest B3
Soprano Solo
Range
Lowest D♭4Highest A♭5
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With a free account, the app plays the parts sung.
The words
Verse 1
The lake lay blue be low the hill, The lake lay blue below the hill, below the hill lay blue, Cold and Still there new a bird whose wings were palest blue. The Sky above was blue at last, The Sky beneath me blue in blue, was blue in blue, blue in blue, It caught, it caught his image, his image as he new. The lake lay blue below the hill.
Free to sing: Charles Villiers Stanford died in 1924 and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge died in 1907.