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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

Westron Wind
Language: English 
Our translations:  GER IRI
Westron wind, when wilt thou blow
[That]1 small rain down can rain.
Christ, [that]2 my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   I. Stravinsky 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Stravinsky: "The"
2 Stravinsky: "if"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 16th century ) , "Westron Wind" [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 Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), "Westron Wind", 1951-2, first performed 1952 [ soprano, tenor, women's chorus, and instrumental ensemble ], from cantata Cantata, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by John Kenneth Tavener (1944 - 2013), "Westron Wind" [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Westwind", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "A Ghaoth Aniar", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 4
Word count: 28

A Ghaoth Aniar
Language: Irish (Gaelic)  after the English 
’Ghaoth aniar, an séidfidh tú?
Is titfidh báisteach mhion.
'Chríost, ach mo ghrása bheith le m’ais
Is í sa leaba liom.

Text Authorship:

  • Singable translation from English to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2016 by Gabriel Rosenstock.

    This author's work falls under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons license.


    Gabriel Rosenstock.  Contact: grosenstock04 (AT) gmail (DOT) com

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Based on:

  • a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Westron Wind"
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website: 2016-01-16
Line count: 4
Word count: 21

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