by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Solemnly, mournfully
Language: English
Solemnly, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. Cover the embers, And put out the light; Toil comes with the morning, And rest with the night. Dark grow the windows, And quenched is the fire; Sound fades into silence,-- All footsteps retire. No voice in the chambers, No sound in the hall! Sleep and oblivion Reign over all! The book is completed, And closed, like the day; And the hand that has written it Lays it away. Dim grow its fancies; Forgotten they lie; Like coals in the ashes, They darken and die. Song sinks into silence, The story is told, The windows are darkened, The hearth-stone is cold. Darker and darker The black shadows fall; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all.
R. Stöhr sets stanza 1
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- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Curfew", appears in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, first published 1845 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Thomas Anderton (1836 - 1903), "Curfew" [ satb chorus and piano ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by W. H. Bentley , "Curfew", op. 2 (Six songs) no. 6 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francesco Berger (1834 - 1933), "Curfew" [ boys' chorus or girls' chorus and piano ], from Two-Part Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Beta , "Curfew", from Gems of Longfellow [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Blockley (1800 - 1882), "Curfew", published >>1854 [ voice (or vocal duet) and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "The curfew", published 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Giuseppe Dinelli , "Curfew" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodore Distin (1823 - 1893), "No sound in the hall" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. J. Finck , "Curfew", published >>1867 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881 - 1945), "Curfew", published 1934 [ mixed chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846 - 1916), "The curfew" [ SSA chorus a cappella? ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stephen Ralph Glover (1812 - 1870), "The curfew bell", published >>1880 [ duet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Coleman Gow (1860 - 1938), "Curfew", op. 2 (Five songs) no. 4, published 1888 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Coleman Gow (1860 - 1938), "Curfew", published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from A Group of Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Allis Gower , "The curfew bell", published 188-? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pasquale D. Guglielmo (1810 - 1873), "The curfew bell" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Liptrot Hatton (1809 - 1886), "Curfew", published 1869 [ contralto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur William Marchant (1850 - ?), "Curfew" [ women's chorus and piano ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Curfew", op. 150 no. 3 (2008) [ baritone and piano ], from Elf Lieder nach Henry W. Longfellow, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Edward Newell , "The curfew bell" [ 2-part chorus and piano ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Perabeau , "Curfew bell", published 1844-7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Francis Holcombe Read (b. 1821), "Curfew" [ contralto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward (1835 - 1902), "The curfew", published 1862 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Silas (1827 - 1909), "The curfew", published 186-? [ baritone or contralto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Thomas Smart (1813 - 1879), "Curfew" [ satb chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Curfew", op. 91 (Twelve Songs) no. 6 (1943-1944), stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], unpublished; manuscript at Saint Michael's College Archives and available in scanned form at the Petrucci Music Library [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Simon Waley Waley (1827 - 1875), "Curfew" [ bass or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ernst Eckstein (1845 - 1900) , "Die Nachtglocke", subtitle: "(Nach dem Englischen von H.W. Longfellow.)", appears in In Moll und Dur, in 3. Dritte Abtheilung ; composed by Georg Vierling.
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