All day I hear the noise of waters | All day I hear the noise of waters

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

All day I hear the noise of waters

Language: English

Our translations: 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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Text 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]
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]
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]
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]
by David Del Tredici (1937 - 2023), "Monotone", 1958-60, published c1974, from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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]
by Paul Fetler (b. 1920), "All day I hear", published 1957 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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]
by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (1893 - 1962), "All day I hear the noise of waters", op. 51 no. 5 (1929), published 1930 [ medium voice, piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "All day I hear", published 1950 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Kauder (1888 - 1972), "All day I hear", published 1955 [ soprano, alto, tenor, string quartet ], from Ten Poems [sung text not yet checked]
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]
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]
by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Noise Of Many Waters", op. 407 (1953) [sung text not yet checked]
by Gardner Read (1913 - 2005), "All day I hear", op. 48 no. 2, published 1950 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Songs for a Rainy Night, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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]
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]

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