by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954)

A sound of a distant horn
Language: English 
A sound of a distant horn,
O'er shadowed lake is borne,
my father's song.

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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):

  • by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "A sound of a distant horn", 1921, note: the score contains an epigraph by Wordsworth reading "The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more." [
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Word count: 14