The White Dawn is Stealing
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The White Dawn is Stealing
This is a song from "Four American Songs, no 2."
the music is by Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946)
the lyrics are by Nelle Richmond Eberhart
The white dawn is stealing above the dark cedar trees,
The young corn is waving its blades in the morning breeze;
The birds chant so lonely, the leaves softly moan above,
The heart of me sighs, the heart of me sighs for love.
My signal I flash where the spring's silver waters lie,
My love-call I send on the winds that are floating by.
Then come, oh, thy coming shall be as the dawn to me,
The heart of me sighs, the heart of me sighs for thee.
(Theresa arranged it for cello instead of voice with piano.)
I added the Native American portraits in because Cadman was one of the first composers that was interested in Native American folk music and used some of these folk melodies in his compositions.
Here are the pictures I set to our performance of The White Dawn is Stealing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNFLMOF-Tz8
This is a song from "Four American Songs, no 2."
the music is by Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946)
the lyrics are by Nelle Richmond Eberhart
The white dawn is stealing above the dark cedar trees,
The young corn is waving its blades in the morning breeze;
The birds chant so lonely, the leaves softly moan above,
The heart of me sighs, the heart of me sighs for love.
My signal I flash where the spring's silver waters lie,
My love-call I send on the winds that are floating by.
Then come, oh, thy coming shall be as the dawn to me,
The heart of me sighs, the heart of me sighs for thee.
(Theresa arranged it for cello instead of voice with piano.)
I added the Native American portraits in because Cadman was one of the first composers that was interested in Native American folk music and used some of these folk melodies in his compositions.
Here are the pictures I set to our performance of The White Dawn is Stealing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNFLMOF-Tz8
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