When daisies pied (George Alexander Macfarren)

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• (Posted 2023-11-13)  CPDL #77223:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-13).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 495 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2019-04-04)  CPDL #53869:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-04-04).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

• (Posted 2017-11-19)  CPDL #47529:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2017-11-19).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 101 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: When daisies pied
Composer: George Alexander Macfarren
Lyricist: William Shakespeare Love's Labours Lost: Act V

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1869 in Novello Part-Song Book (2nd Series), Vol. 1, no. 52
Description: Shakespeare Songs no. 4.

External websites:

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Original text and translations

English text When daisies pied and violets blue And ladysmocks all silverwhite And cuckoobuds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on ev’ry tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo--O word of fear, O word unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughman’s clocks, When turtles tread and rooks and daws And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then on ev’ry tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo--O word of fear, O word unpleasing to a married ear!

German translation Wenn bunte Tausendschön und blaue Veilchen und silbrig-weißes Wiesenschaumkraut und Himmelsschlüssel von gelbem Ton die Wiesen farbenfreudig zieren, dann verspottet der Kuckuck auf jedem Baum die verheirateten Männer; denn er singt Kuckuck--Oh Schreckenswort, dem Ohr des Ehemanns ein Graus! Wenn die Schäfer auf Haferhalmen blasen und die lustigen Lerchen den Pflügern als Uhr dienen, wenn sich die Tauben paaren und die Saatkrähen und die Dohlen und die Mädchen ihre Sommerhemdchen bleichen, dann verspottet der Kuckuck auf jedem Baum die verheirateten Männer; denn er singt Kuckuck--Oh Schreckenswort, dem Ohr des Ehemanns ein Graus!