At the cry of the first bird

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)

Do gabsat ó gaírm in chet eóin

Language: Irish (Gaelic)

Do gabsat ó gaírm in chet eóin
'cot chrochad a ghrúad mar géis
nis chóir anad oc cói chaidche
scarad lái is aidche da éis

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Confirmed with The Gaelic Journal, Dublin: the Gaelic Union, 1894. Included in Anecdota from Irish MSS., XII: Volume V, old no. 54, September 1894. Pages 93 - 94. At the Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, the Leabhar Breac manuscript is number 1230, 23 P 16.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title, from The Speckled Book, 12^th cent. [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):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 1 ; composed by David W. Guion.
Also set in English, a translation by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980) , appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © ; composed by Samuel Barber.

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

ENG English (Kuno Meyer) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 1
ENG English (Howard Mumford Jones) , appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright ©

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At the cry of the first bird

Language: English after the Irish (Gaelic)

Our translations: FRE SPA

At the cry of the first bird
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Text Authorship:

by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980), appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, from The Speckled Book, 12^th cent.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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This text (or a part of it) is used in a work

by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "The crucifixion", op. 29 no. 5 (1953), published 1954 [ voice and piano ], from Hermit songs, no. 5

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 1 ; composed by David W. Guion.

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

This text was added to the website: 2004-01-18
Line count: 4
Word count: 30