O cool is the valley now (Joyce) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

O cool is the valley now

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE

O cool is the valley now 
  And there, love, will we go 
For many a choir is singing now 
  Where Love did sometime go. 

And hear you not the thrushes calling, 
  Calling us away? 
O cool and pleasant is the valley 
  And there, love, will we stay.

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Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 16, first published 1907 [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 David Arditti (b. 1964), "O cool is the valley now", op. 20 no. 10 (1998) [ tenor and string quartet ], from Chamber Music, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Where Love Did Sometime Go", 1991, published 1996 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ronald A. Beckett , "O cool is the valley now", 2017, from Because your voice was at my side, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "O cool is the valley now", 1950 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Songs (1950) [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas G. Beveridge (b. 1938), "O cool is the valley now", published <<1964 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Calabro (1926 - 1991), "O cool is the valley now", 1952 [ medium voice and piano ], from Three Songs for Medium Voice [sung text not yet checked]
by Matthew Emery (b. 1991), "Love will we stay", 2012, first performed 2013 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Joan Ferris , "O cool is the valley now", published 1967 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Six Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Ross Lee Finney (1906 - 1997), "O cool is the valley now ", 1952, published 1985, first performed 1975 [ voice and piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 16, Henmar Press [sung text not yet checked]
by Arnold Freed (b. 1926), "O cool is the valley now", <<1964 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Fürstenthal (1920 - 2016), "O Cool" [ voice and piano ], from Songs after Poems by James Joyce II, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (1893 - 1962), "O cool is the valley now", published 1930 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chamber Music [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "O cool is the valley now", <<1953 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by (Martin) William Karlins (1932 - 2005), "O cool is the valley now", 1962 [ soprano or alto (optional), bassoon, and piano ], from Four Inventions and a Fugue [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Kauder (1888 - 1972), "O cool is the valley now", published 1955 [ soprano, alto, tenor, and string quartet ], from Ten Poems [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl J. Kittleson (b. 1920), "O cool is the valley now" [ soprano, flute, oboe, horn, clarinet, and bassoon ], from Three Songs for Soprano and Woodwinds [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Koemmenich (1866 - 1922), "O cool is the valley now", published 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred Kunz (b. 1929), "O cool is the valley now", published 1972 [ TTBB chorus and piano ], from Three Works for Male Chorus [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "The pleasant valley", R. 51 no. 4 (1929), published 1930 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], from Seven Poems by James Joyce, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Nick Peros , "O cool is the valley now" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "O cool is the valley now", published 1972 [ band ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "O cool is the valley now", 1998 [ mezzo-soprano, viola, clarinet, flute, and piano ], from Along the River, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Williametta Spencer (b. 1932), "O cool is the valley now", published 1970 [ satb chorus a cappella ], madrigal [sung text not yet checked]
by Conrad Susa (b. 1935), "O cool is the valley now", published 1973 [ satb chorus and piano ], from Chamber Music [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 47