A Ghaoth Aniar (Anonymous, set by (Igor Stravinsky, John Kenneth Tavener)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

Westron Wind

Language: English

Available translation(s): 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.

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¹ Stravinsky: "The"
² Stravinsky: "if"

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

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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 4
Word count: 26

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.

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"

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