All day I hear the noise of waters (Joyce) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

All day I hear the noise of waters

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE IRI

All day I hear the noise of waters
 Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is, when going
 Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the waters'
 Monotone.

The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
 Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
 Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them flowing
 To and fro.

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Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 35, first published 1908 [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 Creighton Allen (1900 - 1969), "Lay of Solitude", published 1929. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Luciano Berio (1925 - 2003), "Monotone", 1953, published 1954 [female voice, clarinet, violoncello and harp], from Chamber Music, no. 2. [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "All day I hear the noise of the water", 1951 [high voice and piano], from Six Songs to Poems of James Joyce [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Louis Calabro (1926 - 1991), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1952 [medium voice, piano], from Three Songs for Medium Voice [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "All day I hear the noise of waters", alternate title: "Noise of Waters", 1946 [medium voice and piano], from Three Songs for Medium Voice and Piano, no. 3. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by David Del Tredici (b. 1937), "Monotone", 1958-60, published c1974, from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. 4. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Joan Ferris , "All day I hear the noise of waters", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Six Songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Paul Fetler (b. 1920), "All day I hear", published 1957. [SATB chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Ross Lee Finney (1906 - 1997), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1952, published 1985, first performed 1975 [voice and piano], from Chamber Music, no. 35, Henmar Press [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (1893 - 1962), "All day I hear the noise of waters", published 1930 [medium voice, piano], from Chamber Music [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "All day I hear", published 1950. [medium voice, piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Hugo Kauder (1888 - 1972), "All day I hear", published 1955 [soprano, alto, tenor, string quartet], from Ten Poems [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Donald James Martino (1931 - 2005), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1951, published 1978, from Separate Songs, no. 1. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "Noise of Waters", op. 74 no. 3, published 1959 [voice and piano], from James Joyce Songs, no. 3. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Gardner Read (b. 1913), "All day I hear", published 1950 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Songs for a Rainy Night [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Tibor Serly (1901 - 1978), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1926 [mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra], from Four Songs from "Chamber Music" [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Vally Weigl, née Pick (c1894 - 1982), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1944-5, incomplete, MS at the Moldenhauer Archives, Harvard University [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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Researcher for this text: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 59