Half Hid in the Grove, with an accompaniment for the Piano forte or harp. Composed by J.A. Stevenson M.D. The words taken from the CELEBRATED poem of Oscian
| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Ossian |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | 22 bars |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 12 lines |
| TIME SIGNATURE | C |
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♭♭ |
| TONAL CENTRE | B- |
| INCIPIT | GEDCB,A,G,A,G,G,G,C |
| GENRE | Art Song |
| TEXT SOURCE | 'Half Hid in the Grove’ (Dublin: B. Cooke, c.1795) British Library. G. 426.dd.(27) |
| TUNE SOURCE | as above |
| FIRST LINE | Half hid in the grove I sit down |
| NOTATED INCIPIT | |
| This is one of several Dublin-printed songs set to words from Ossian by Sir John Stevenson (1761-1833). For example, ‘Bards of the Days of Old’ was published as a glee for three voices (Dublin: F. Rhames, [c.1800]). Stevenson would later write glees for Thomas Moore’s translations from Anacreon and would become best-known for his arrangements of Irish airs for Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies. He also wrote 173 glees and catches for the Hibernian Catch Club. | |
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Half Hid in the Grove, with an accompaniment for the Piano forte or harp. Composed by J.A. Stevenson M.D. The words taken from the CELEBRATED poem of Oscian [sic]Half hid in the Grove I sit down,I turn me away from his steps,why shou’d he know of my love,my breast is heaving o’er with sighs,as foam on the dark course of streams,as foam on the dark course of streams,but he passes away and my soul is sad,why did not I pass away in secret,like the flow’r on the Rock,that lifts its fair head unseen,and strews its wither’d leaves on the blast,strews its witherd leaves on the blast.